Re: Git for Windows for Unix?

From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 27, 2018, 16:18 UTC
Message-ID: <d3d82080-f3e7-50cd-df81-1fed3198eb88@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87va6rhqup.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

On 9/27/2018 12:01 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> I had an IRC conversation with Johannes saying I didn't know Git For
> Windows builds perfectly well for Linux, this just isn't advertised in
> the ANNOUNCE E-Mails, so I hadn't tried.

We run CI to ensure it builds and tests on Mac OSX, too. This is important to the VFS for Git group, as we work on making that work for Mac clients. We have our fork of Git for Windows at https://github.com/microsoft/git.

> GFW is a "friendly fork", but a permanent one it seems. The diff between
> it and 2.19.0 proper is ~10k lines, and e.g. this last release had
> experimental stash/rebase in C that 2.19.0 didn't.

Hopefully we can learn from having this experimental feature in the wild and improve the patches on-list by fixing issues.

We do have a desire to move as much as possible upstream. It's difficult to find time to pay down that "fork debt".

Thanks,

-Stolee