git/contrib
Bernt Hansen ac378633f3 git-new-workdir: Share SVN meta data between work dirs and the repository
Multiple work dirs with git svn caused each work dir to have its own
stale copy of the SVN meta data in .git/svn

git svn rebase updates commits with git-svn-id: in the repository and
stores the SVN meta data information only in that work dir.  Attempting to
git svn rebase in other work dirs for the same branch would fail because
the last revision fetched according to the git-svn-id is greater than the
revision in the SVN meta data for that work directory.

Signed-off-by: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-15 00:05:18 -07:00
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blameview War on whitespace 2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
completion Update git-completion for new 'remote rm' option 2008-01-19 23:06:02 -08:00
continuous contrib/continuous: a continuous integration build manager 2007-03-19 22:21:19 -07:00
convert-objects Move convert-objects to contrib. 2007-09-25 17:34:12 -07:00
emacs git.el: find the git-status buffer whatever its name is 2008-02-29 21:22:18 -08:00
examples Officially deprecate repo-config. 2008-01-17 22:52:40 -08:00
fast-import git-p4: Fix typo in --detect-labels 2007-11-20 23:27:44 -08:00
gitview gitview: import only one of gtksourceview and gtksourceview2 2007-11-19 23:24:34 -08:00
hg-to-git hg-to-git: fix parent analysis 2008-02-15 23:01:49 -08:00
hooks Remove usage of git- (dash) commands from email hook 2008-01-13 21:48:20 -08:00
p4import Demote git-p4import to contrib status. 2007-07-15 15:23:37 -07:00
patches INSTALL: add warning on docbook-xsl 1.72 and 1.73 2007-08-04 01:55:08 -07:00
stats Add contrib/stats/mailmap.pl script 2007-07-14 13:43:49 -07:00
vim contrib/vim: update syntax for changed commit template 2007-01-22 20:40:26 -08:00
workdir git-new-workdir: Share SVN meta data between work dirs and the repository 2008-03-15 00:05:18 -07:00
README War on whitespace 2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
remotes2config.sh contrib: Make remotes2config.sh script more robust 2007-12-04 14:35:08 -08:00

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