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GitMinutes #41: Stefan Beller and J. Wyman (Git Merge 2017)

GitMinutes #41: Stefan Beller and J. Wyman (Git Merge 2017)

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We are (temporarily) back after a long hiatus! What triggers this
action is Git Merge 2017 that took place in Brussels back in
February. This is the first of multiple episodes from the
conference.

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First up is Stefan Beller of Google. He is a Git core
contributor who has recently been picking up
git-submodules to bring them back into shape. We'll hear about
his current work on that. It's not the first time Stefan is on the
podcast, back in 2015 he spoke about improving the Git
protocol.
GitMinutes recording setup in the mysterious "up-side-down room".
Second guest of the day is J Wyman from Microsoft.
There's been quite some development on Windows and in Visual Studio
since I last had them on the podcast (Martin Woodward in 2013,
and Jameson Miller in 2015) now J gives us a well-needed
update.

Episode outline:

00:00:00 Intro
00:02:22 Submodules at the contributors'
summit?
00:03:07 Why do people hate on submodules so
much?
00:04:12 Aren't submodules done and ready?
00:05:25 What is the difference to other multi-repo
handlers?
00:06:59 Plan for the future?
00:07:52 Welcome J Wyman
00:08:17 What were the highlights from the contributors'
summit?
00:08:54 What do you do at Microsoft?
00:10:22 What are the issues with switching away from
libgit2?
00:11:21 Are you still using libgit2
anywhere?
00:13:10 How do you use core Git?
00:14:16 Which of the discussed Git improvements are most
interesting?
00:15:07 Who contributes to Git from
Microsoft?
00:16:18 Anything else I should ask you
about?
00:17:43 Outro
Intro script:

As you may or may not know, during the Git Merge conference,
which is sort of a user-oriented happening, there is a less known
event taking place called the Git Contributor Summit, where many
of the contributors to Git itself get together to talk core
development, face to face. This is a gold mine for GitMinutes
interviews, and this is the third Git-Merge I’ve gone to with my
wife’s trusty singstar microphones.
I got a total of 8 interviews, and it’s all top-notch quality
talk with core contributors and people with some really hefty
ideas on how to bring Git forward in the years to come. AGAIN Git
Merge was a place to talk about scaling Git, but we also
discussed how to get more diverse contributions into Git itself,
and how to advance the current world state of discussions and
reviews *around* commits. You’ll hear more about that in the
coming episodes. For the first of the two interviews in
this episode, I grabbed Stefan Beller from Google. He is a
seasoned Git-Merge participant and core contributor. You may
remember that I interviewed him two years ago. At the contributor
summit this year he brought up one of the most hated (and perhaps
also most loved) parts of Git itself: submodules!

After that I talk to J Wyman from Microsoft about how they are
now actually using the full Git core from within Visual Studio,
among many interesting things he has to report from Redmond.