Notes from the 2021 Git Contributors' Summit [LWN.net]

For those who are curious about where the development of Git is headed: Johannes Schindelin has posted an extensive set of notes from the just-concluded Git Contributors' Summit.

We held our second all-virtual Summit over the past two days. It was the traditional unconference style meeting, with topics being proposed and voted on right before the introduction round. It was really good to see the human faces behind those email addresses. 32 contributors participated, and we spanned the timezones from PST to IST.

Be sure to go into the thread for the full notes.

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Notes from the 2021 Git Contributors' Summit

Posted Oct 22, 2021 17:29 UTC (Fri) by bluss (guest, #47454) [Link] (2 responses)

Johannes was also recently a guest on the Software at Scale podcast, being interviewed about maintaining Git for windows.

Notes from the 2021 Git Contributors' Summit

Posted Oct 23, 2021 6:05 UTC (Sat) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/software-at-scale-35-ma...

Notes from the 2021 Git Contributors' Summit

Posted Oct 25, 2021 17:47 UTC (Mon) by bluss (guest, #47454) [Link]

I tought I'd say something more. Software at scale is a vaguely microsofty podcast, so I don't expect many here would listen to it and I'm not even sure it was worth the bother. I guess it's interesting for all of us to listen to broader voices of the worlds we usually don't hear so much about.

I added the podcast since they were interviewing some interesting people at some point, and the interview with Johannes was a bit interesting. The funniest part was when he described *Git for Windows* special status (and need for that status) by bringing up the disdain a typical Linux user has for Windows, and git mailing list people certainly generally would fall in that category. Then he says he himself is one of those, and was only ever maintaining Git using a Windows VM, never using an actual windows install until.. he started working for Microsoft.

Notes from the 2021 Git Contributors' Summit

Posted Nov 4, 2021 6:27 UTC (Thu) by callegar (guest, #16148) [Link]

Interesting notes about the storage in git of compressed files, such as ZIPs, Opendocument, docx, jar files, etc. Remember when I opened a thread on that on the git mailing list many years ago, but it was definitely a too early time when much more pressing priorities existed for the git developers. Good to see the topic coming out again now that times are more mature.