Re: On a personal note

[Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>]

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

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