git/contrib
Gary Gibbons bf1d68ff4c git-p4: use absolute directory for PWD env var
P4 only looks at the environment variable $PWD to figure out
where it is, so chdir() has code to set that every time.  But
when the clone --destination is not an absolute path, PWD will
not be absolute and P4 won't be able to find any files expected
to be in the current directory.  Fix this by expanding PWD to
an absolute path.

One place this crops up is when using a P4CONFIG environment
variable to specify P4 parameters, such as P4USER or P4PORT.
Setting P4CONFIG=.p4config works for p4 invocations from the
current directory.  But if the value of PWD is not absolute, it
fails.

[ update description --pw ]

Signed-off-by: Gary Gibbons <ggibbons@perforce.com>
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-11 21:13:52 -08:00
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buildsystems msvc: Fix an "unrecognized option" linker warning 2010-01-22 16:15:14 -08:00
ciabot contrib/ciabot: git-describe commit instead of HEAD 2010-10-29 14:09:48 -07:00
completion Merge branch 'sg/complete-refs' 2011-12-09 13:37:18 -08:00
continuous
convert-objects Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sections 2011-07-06 14:26:26 -07:00
diff-highlight contrib: add diff highlight script 2011-10-18 00:01:18 -07:00
emacs git.el: Don't use font-lock-compile-keywords 2011-04-03 11:08:54 -07:00
examples cherry-pick/revert: add support for -X/--strategy-option 2010-12-28 11:27:56 -08:00
fast-import git-p4: use absolute directory for PWD env var 2011-12-11 21:13:52 -08:00
git-jump contrib: add git-jump script 2011-10-21 13:55:59 -07:00
git-shell-commands Add sample commands for git-shell 2010-08-12 15:16:31 -07:00
gitview Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sections 2011-07-06 14:26:26 -07:00
hg-to-git Correct references to /usr/bin/python which does not exist on FreeBSD 2010-03-24 14:33:54 -07:00
hooks contrib/hooks: adapt comment about Debian install location for contrib hooks 2011-09-26 16:39:34 -07:00
mw-to-git git-remote-mediawiki: don't include HTTP login/password in author 2011-10-20 10:17:14 -07:00
p4import Correct references to /usr/bin/python which does not exist on FreeBSD 2010-03-24 14:33:54 -07:00
patches INSTALL: add warning on docbook-xsl 1.72 and 1.73 2007-08-04 01:55:08 -07:00
stats contrib: update packinfo.pl to not use dashed commands 2008-10-18 06:20:27 -07:00
svn-fe Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sections 2011-07-06 14:26:26 -07:00
thunderbird-patch-inline contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline: do not require bash to run the script 2011-03-30 12:29:39 -07:00
vim contrib/vim: change URL to point to the latest syntax files 2009-01-12 23:36:03 -08:00
workdir prefer test -h over test -L in shell scripts 2010-09-27 10:48:23 -07:00
README
git-resurrect.sh request-pull: protect against OPTIONS_KEEPDASHDASH from environment 2010-05-01 11:02:21 -07:00
remotes2config.sh contrib: Make remotes2config.sh script more robust 2007-12-04 14:35:08 -08:00
rerere-train.sh Add contrib/rerere-train script 2008-09-29 09:15:41 -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