git/contrib
Junio C Hamano b006f01ab5 Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph-fsck'
"git fsck" learns to make sure the optional commit-graph file is in
a sane state.

* ds/commit-graph-fsck: (23 commits)
  coccinelle: update commit.cocci
  commit-graph: update design document
  gc: automatically write commit-graph files
  commit-graph: add '--reachable' option
  commit-graph: use string-list API for input
  fsck: verify commit-graph
  commit-graph: verify contents match checksum
  commit-graph: test for corrupted octopus edge
  commit-graph: verify commit date
  commit-graph: verify generation number
  commit-graph: verify parent list
  commit-graph: verify root tree OIDs
  commit-graph: verify objects exist
  commit-graph: verify corrupt OID fanout and lookup
  commit-graph: verify required chunks are present
  commit-graph: verify catches corrupt signature
  commit-graph: add 'verify' subcommand
  commit-graph: load a root tree from specific graph
  commit: force commit to parse from object database
  commit-graph: parse commit from chosen graph
  ...
2018-08-02 15:30:40 -07:00
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buildsystems
coccinelle coccinelle: update commit.cocci 2018-07-16 10:54:31 -07:00
completion Merge branch 'nd/completion-negation' 2018-06-28 12:53:32 -07:00
contacts git-contacts: also recognise "Reported-by:" 2017-07-27 09:42:55 -07:00
credential git-credential-netrc: make "all" default target of Makefile 2018-06-18 14:58:59 -07:00
diff-highlight diff-highlight: detect --graph by indent 2018-03-21 10:24:19 -07:00
emacs git{,-blame}.el: remove old bitrotting Emacs code 2018-04-16 17:25:49 +09:00
examples Merge branch 'bw/c-plus-plus' into ds/lazy-load-trees 2018-04-11 10:46:32 +09:00
fast-import import-tars: read overlong names from pax extended header 2018-05-24 08:35:51 +09:00
git-jump contrib/git-jump/git-jump: jump to exact location 2018-06-22 12:59:02 -07:00
git-shell-commands
hg-to-git Replace Free Software Foundation address in license notices 2017-11-09 13:21:21 +09:00
hooks hooks/pre-auto-gc-battery: allow gc to run on non-laptops 2018-02-28 14:24:46 -08:00
long-running-filter
mw-to-git perl: fix installing modules from contrib 2018-04-11 10:29:03 +09:00
persistent-https docs/config: mention protocol implications of url.insteadOf 2017-06-01 10:07:10 +09:00
remote-helpers
stats
subtree Merge branch 'sg/subtree-signed-commits' 2018-03-08 12:36:25 -08:00
svn-fe
thunderbird-patch-inline
update-unicode unicode_width.h: rename to use dash in file name 2018-04-11 18:11:00 +09:00
workdir git-new-workdir: mark script as LF-only 2017-05-10 13:32:50 +09:00
README
git-resurrect.sh Merge branch 'jc/bs-t-is-not-a-tab-for-sed' 2017-04-16 23:29:29 -07:00
remotes2config.sh
rerere-train.sh contrib/rerere-train: optionally overwrite existing resolutions 2017-07-26 13:38:48 -07:00

README

Contributed Software

Although these pieces are available as part of the official git
source tree, they are in somewhat different status.  The
intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe
even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them,
and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved
faster.

I am not expecting to touch these myself that much.  As far as
my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are
owned by their respective primary authors.  I am willing to help
if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners"
have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to
fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree
owners.  IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for
enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so
just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch.  If
you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be
first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author
should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer).
This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a
lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the
drill.

I expect that things that start their life in the contrib/ area
to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming
projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory.  On
the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused
and inactive ones from time to time.

If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose
it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves
there are some general interests (it does not have to be a
list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow
audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose
upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is
of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN
repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport),
submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your
stuff there.

-jc