We (Git devs at Microsoft) have had several people start contributing to
Git over the past few years (I'm the most-recent addition). As we
on-boarded to Git development on our Windows machines, we collected our
setup steps on an internal wiki page.
Now, we'd like to make that document publicly available. These steps are
focused on a Windows user, so we propose putting them in the
git-for-windows/git repo under CONTRIBUTING.md. I have a pull request
open for feedback [1]. I'll read comments on that PR or in this thread.
If you've ever done Git development on a Windows machine, I would love
to hear your feedback on this document. Any other advice you have is
greatly appreciated.
For anyone interested, there are also a discussion about submitting
patches upstream. The document links to Documentation/CodingGuidelines
and Documentation/SubmittingPatches, but tries to elaborate with
additional advice.
Thanks,
-Stolee
[1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/1529
