git/contrib
Junio C Hamano fdcb769916 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  format-patch: add MIME-Version header when we add content-type.
  Fixed link in user-manual
  import-tars: Use the "Link indicator" to identify directories
  git name-rev writes beyond the end of malloc() with large generations
  Documentation/branch: fix small typo in -D example
2007-05-16 12:43:05 -07:00
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blameview blameview: Fix the browse behavior in blameview 2007-02-27 21:41:48 -08:00
completion Add clean.requireForce option, and add -f option to git-clean to override it 2007-04-23 22:13:50 -07:00
continuous contrib/continuous: a continuous integration build manager 2007-03-19 22:21:19 -07:00
emacs git.el: Add a commit description to the reflog. 2007-04-19 23:27:51 -07:00
examples Make gc a builtin. 2007-03-17 00:34:19 -07:00
fast-import Merge branch 'maint' 2007-05-16 12:43:05 -07:00
gitview gitview: annotation support 2007-04-20 01:46:42 -07:00
hg-to-git Add hg-to-git conversion utility. 2007-02-05 13:52:45 -08:00
hooks post-receive-email example hook: sed command for getting description was wrong 2007-04-26 20:59:55 -07:00
vim contrib/vim: update syntax for changed commit template 2007-01-22 20:40:26 -08:00
workdir contrib/workdir: add a simple script to create a working directory 2007-03-31 01:26:28 -07:00
README Add contrib/README. 2006-02-17 13:33:14 -08:00
remotes2config.sh [PATCH] Rename git-repo-config to git-config. 2007-01-28 16:16:53 -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