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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