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Re: On a personal note

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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date
Sep 17, 2015, 19:27 UTC
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi Duy,
>
> On 2015-09-17 15:29, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Johannes Schindelin
>> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> yes, it is true: since mid-August I am working for Microsoft. Over a
>>> year ago, I got into contact with the Visual Studio Online group at
>>> Microsoft, of which I am now a happy member. A large part of my mission
>>> is to improve the experience of Git for Windows. This is very exciting
>>> to me: I finally can focus pretty much full time on something that I
>>> could only address in my spare time previously.
>>
>> Is upstreaming msysgit-specific patches in the roadmap? It would be
>> very nice to have everything in one tree (or at least keep the two
>> trees as close as possible).
>
> Please strike that name "msysgit" from your memory. Just remember "Git for Windows". (The name "msysgit" *never* referred to "Git for Windows", but only to the development environment used to generate Git for Windows 1.x). Please. Thank you.
>
> And yes, the roadmap is pretty clear from the GitHub tickets, e.g. this one:
>
> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/285
That's pretty awesome. Glad it's on the roadmap!
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>
> Please note that I held off this week for three reasons:
>
> 1) I was submitting patches to the MSys2 and Cygwin upstream first,
>
> 2) I was busy fixing e.g. that bug where home directories containing non-ASCII characters were handled incorrectly (and generally trying to keep the tickets in https://github.com/git-for-windows/git under something similar to control), and
>
> 3) what with Peff's and Stefan's huge patch series, I did not want to overload Junio.

My patch series is not large by any means, but it seems as if it requires lots of discussion in the fine details. ;)

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> Please note that I already started submitting patches, though:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/277542
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/277731
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
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Message 7 of 9 in “On a personal note”
  1. Johannes SchindelinSep 3, 2015
  2. Steve HoelzerSep 4, 2015
  3. Jeff KingSep 4, 2015
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2015
  5. Duy NguyenSep 17, 2015
  6. Johannes SchindelinSep 17, 2015
  7. Stefan BellerSep 17, 2015
  8. Windows patches roadmap, was Re: On a personal noteJohannes Schindelin, Sep 18, 2015
  9. Johannes SchindelinSep 6, 2015

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