git/contrib
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 9a8606465e remote-mediawiki: use "sh" to eliminate unquoted commands
Remove the use of run_git_unquoted() completely with a use of "sh -c"
suggested by Jeff King, i.e.:

    sh -c '"$@" 2>/dev/null' -- echo sneaky 'argument;id'

I don't think this is needed now for any potential RCE issue. The
$remotename argument is ultimately picked by the local user (and
similarly, the $local variable comes from a user-supplied
refspec).

But completely eliminating the use of unquoted shell arguments has a
value in and of itself, by making the code easier to review. As noted
in an earlier commit I think the use of IPC::Open3 would be too
verbose here, but this "sh -c" trick strikes the right balance between
readability and semantic sanity.

Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-21 12:37:38 -07:00
..
buildsystems Merge branch 'os/vcbuild' 2020-09-09 13:53:09 -07:00
coccinelle commit: move members graph_pos, generation to a slab 2020-06-17 14:37:30 -07:00
completion completion: add GIT_COMPLETION_SHOW_ALL env var 2020-08-19 17:46:17 -07:00
contacts
credential contrib/credential/netrc: work outside a repo 2019-12-20 12:40:52 -08:00
diff-highlight diff-highlight: fix a whitespace nit 2019-10-15 14:08:37 +09:00
emacs
examples
fast-import import-tars: ignore the global PAX header 2020-03-24 14:39:47 -07:00
git-jump
git-shell-commands
hg-to-git hg-to-git: make it compatible with both python3 and python2 2019-09-18 12:03:05 -07:00
hooks multimail: fix a few simple spelling errors 2019-11-10 16:00:55 +09:00
long-running-filter
mw-to-git remote-mediawiki: use "sh" to eliminate unquoted commands 2020-09-21 12:37:38 -07:00
persistent-https
remote-helpers
stats
subtree Merge branch 'dl/subtree-docs' 2020-08-24 14:54:33 -07:00
thunderbird-patch-inline
update-unicode
vscode
workdir
README
coverage-diff.sh contrib: add coverage-diff script 2018-10-10 10:11:35 +09:00
git-resurrect.sh
remotes2config.sh
rerere-train.sh

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