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From: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
To: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
	NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE <nsengiyumvawilberforce@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Hariom verma <hariom18599@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Outreachy] internship contribution
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 12:33:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9fcfc8b0-772d-08c3-595b-5a5a139d7ecd@github.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD26PY-53vZNZJzCRNiqaVB4fd=AvBtVuvMQP9p8Oqj82Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/10/2022 12:22 PM, Christian Couder wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 2:19 PM NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE
> <nsengiyumvawilberforce@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I see most of the articles are UNIX based, does it mean that I should
>> have a UNIX based operating system in order to contribute?
>> Currently, I have windows installed 11 on my PC
> 
> You can install a Linux virtual machine on your PC and develop in this
> virtual machine, or you can install the Git for Windows SDK from:
> 
> https://gitforwindows.org/#contribute
> 
> It might be best to install both development environments. I will not
> be able to help you much with development environment issues if you
> develop on Windows, but if it works for you, that could be Ok,
> especially if you use GitGitGadget too.

The git-for-windows/git fork has some information that is helpful
for developing Git on a Windows machine [1]. This also includes
details about recommending a Linux VM with Windows' Hyper-V system
because compiling and testing Git is so much faster on Linux.

[1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

Good luck!
-Stolee

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-10 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-09  4:37 [Outreachy] internship contribution NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE
2022-10-10  8:19 ` Christian Couder
2022-10-10 12:18   ` NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE
2022-10-10 16:22     ` Christian Couder
2022-10-10 16:33       ` Derrick Stolee [this message]
2022-10-10 16:57         ` Luna Jernberg
2022-10-10 18:17           ` NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE
2022-10-10 18:22             ` Derrick Stolee
2022-10-11  6:48               ` NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE
2022-10-12  3:31                 ` NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE
2022-10-12  4:42                   ` Junio C Hamano
2022-10-12  6:45                     ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2022-10-12 10:37                       ` NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE
2022-10-12 14:21                         ` Christian Couder
2022-10-12 15:18                         ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2022-10-12 16:37                           ` NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE
     [not found]                           ` <CA+fEeODMVNrnFRbuNVgbBShSA2Juo8Ux5ahd2J8nCfmPetdpvA@mail.gmail.com>
2022-10-13 10:52                             ` Christian Couder

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