MAD24-416 A journey to Git for Windows on AArch64, GNU Toolchain, GitHub CI, and Community Contributions

• Friday, 17 May 12:05 - 12:30
• Room: Session 1 | Las Palmas I

This conference talk presents Git for Windows' journey, its evolution, and ongoing development. It discusses how CI practices enhance GNU toolchain contributions. It also shares insights from collaborating with Linaro on preparing patch series and gaining expertise in GNU toolchain contributions. It talks about introducing a new GCC target and facing community reviews as a new contributor. It looks at rebuilding Cygwin and MSYS2 toolchain from scratch and promoting Linux cross-compilation and MSYS2 toolchain repositories for community involvement.