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On a personal note

Subject: On a personal note

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9 messages between Sep 3, 2015 and Sep 18, 2015.

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Johannes Schindelin· Sep 3, 2015, 10:00 UTC · lore

Hey all,

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.

Of course, Git for Windows will stay exactly the same project as before. It will not suddenly turn into a Microsoft product. Obviously, it will stay Open Source, its goal remains to bring the awesome Git SCM to Windows, and I will continue to participate actively in the Git community, if anything even more actively. After the release of Git for Windows 2.5.0 and 2.5.1, there are quite a few loose ends to tie up; All the better that I can now dedicate enough time to address them, and that I now also have time to work properly with contributors on improving Git for Windows.

I am really excited to join the club of Git developers who get paid to work on Git as part of their day-jobs.

In short: for users and contributors of Git for Windows, nothing changes. Except that Pull Requests and issues may be dealt with more swiftly, and that I will actively work on keeping Git for Windows more closely in sync with Git proper.

Good times! Johannes

Steve Hoelzer· Sep 4, 2015, 12:43 UTC · re: Johannes Schindelin · lore

Re: On a personal note

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hey all,
>
> 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.

This is great news for GfW users like me and git in general. Congratulations, Johannes!

Steve

Jeff King· Sep 4, 2015, 13:08 UTC · re: Johannes Schindelin · lore

Re: On a personal note

On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 12:00:58PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> In short: for users and contributors of Git for Windows, nothing
> changes. Except that Pull Requests and issues may be dealt with more
> swiftly, and that I will actively work on keeping Git for Windows more
> closely in sync with Git proper.

Yay. :)

If anyone had told me in 1999 that Microsoft would be sponsoring development of an SCM started by Linus, I would have thought they were crazy.

-Peff

Junio C Hamano· Sep 4, 2015, 16:10 UTC · re: Jeff King · lore

Re: On a personal note

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 12:00:58PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> In short: for users and contributors of Git for Windows, nothing
>> changes. Except that Pull Requests and issues may be dealt with more
>> swiftly, and that I will actively work on keeping Git for Windows more
>> closely in sync with Git proper.
>
> Yay. :)
>
> If anyone had told me in 1999 that Microsoft would be sponsoring
> development of an SCM started by Linus, I would have thought they were
> crazy.

I probably wouldn't have said "crazy", but I think it is very likely that I would have uttered "embrace, extend and...".

Duy Nguyen· Sep 17, 2015, 13:29 UTC · re: Johannes Schindelin · lore

Re: On a personal note

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hey all,
>
> 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).

-- 
Duy

Johannes Schindelin· Sep 17, 2015, 18:54 UTC · re: Duy Nguyen · lore

Re: On a personal note

Hi Duy,

On 2015-09-17 15:29, Duy Nguyen wrote:

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> 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

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.

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

Stefan Beller· Sep 17, 2015, 19:27 UTC · re: Johannes Schindelin · lore

Re: On a personal note

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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Johannes Schindelin· Sep 18, 2015, 10:32 UTC · re: Stefan Beller · lore

Windows patches roadmap, was Re: On a personal note

Hi Stefan,

[sorry that your mail to the git-for-windows Google Group got rejected; I want to try to keep this list subscribers-only as long as possible so as not to waste precious time on moderating 20+ spam mails per day, as we used to do with msysgit's mailing list.]

On 2015-09-17 21:27, Stefan Beller wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Johannes Schindelin
> <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> 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!
> 
>>
>> 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. ;)

Yes, I actually meant the impact on the bandwidth of the Git mailing list, not the size of the patch series per se, sorry. I think that it is highly valuable what you are doing there, and I wish I had more time to participate in improving it... (but just when I think I have time, another bug report comes in, or some day-job stuff, or Junio releases a new version and I scramble to get a new Git for Windows version out... ;-))

Ciao, Dscho

Johannes Schindelin· Sep 6, 2015, 16:45 UTC · lore

Re: On a personal note

On 2015-09-03 15:06, Levente wrote:

> Is the 'git for windows' development is in a separate branch?

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/ (see the "repository" link on the upper right of http://git-for-windows.github.io/).

Ciao, Johannes