GitMinutes #28: Johannes Schindelin on Git for Windows

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In this episode we talk to Johannes Schindelin from the msysgit project, a tool used for building Git for Windows.

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Johannes is a mathematician with a degree in genetics. In his day job, he supports biologists with image processing and analysis. He is involved in a number of Open Source projects and he co-maintains Git for Windows with Sebastian Schuberth, Pat Thoyts and Erik Faye-Lund. He is from Germany, but currently lives in the Mid-West of the US.
Note: We briefly discussed libgit2 being licensed as BSD. This is not the case anymore: It has switched to GPLv2 with a linking exception,
Links:

• Johannes on Google+, GitHub
• Johannes' first OSS project: LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient
• (Fancy redesigned) MsysGit homepage
• Git for Windows wiki
• Mailing list/forum
• The “garden shears”
• Explanation what the “garden shears” are all about
• The git-svn ref issue
• The newly redesigned msysgit homepage sources
• Interactive rebase with Eclipse EGit
• Interactive rebase with SourceTree (this was released right after we recorded)
• Installing Git for Windows from within Visual Studio (video)

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