git/contrib
Torsten Bögershausen 0e9b327227 remote-helpers/test-bzr.sh: do not use "grep '\s'"
Using grep "devel\s\+3:" to find at least one whitspace is not
portable on all grep versions; not all grep versions understand "\s"
as a "whitespace".

Use a literal TAB followed by SPACE.

The + as a qualifier for "one or more" is not a basic regular
expression; use egrep instead of grep.

Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-07 08:41:34 -07:00
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blameview War on whitespace 2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
buildsystems msvc: Fix an "unrecognized option" linker warning 2010-01-22 16:15:14 -08:00
ciabot Make the ciabot scripts completely self-configuring in the normal case. 2012-08-23 20:58:24 -07:00
completion Merge branch 'jc/do-not-let-random-file-interfere-with-completion-tests' into maint 2013-02-07 15:15:23 -08:00
continuous contrib/continuous: a continuous integration build manager 2007-03-19 22:21:19 -07:00
convert-objects Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sections 2011-07-06 14:26:26 -07:00
credential Merge branch 'ph/credential-gnome-keyring' 2012-09-10 15:42:30 -07:00
diff-highlight diff-highlight: document some non-optimal cases 2012-02-13 15:57:07 -08:00
diffall contrib/diffall: fix cleanup trap on Windows 2012-03-14 15:22:38 -07:00
emacs emacs: make 'git-status' work with separate git dirs 2012-11-26 09:34:28 -08:00
examples Merge branch 'jc/merge-bases' 2012-09-11 11:36:05 -07:00
fast-import git-p4: move to toplevel 2012-04-09 14:59:40 -07:00
git-jump git-jump: ignore (custom) prefix in diff mode 2012-09-17 12:31:57 -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 Fix spelling error in post-receive-email hook 2012-10-13 21:50:14 -07:00
mw-to-git git-remote-mediawiki: escape ", \, and LF in file names 2012-11-29 11:16:33 -08:00
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
persistent-https Add persistent-https to contrib 2012-05-30 13:50:45 -07:00
remote-helpers remote-helpers/test-bzr.sh: do not use "grep '\s'" 2013-04-07 08:41:34 -07:00
stats contrib: update stats/mailmap script 2012-12-12 11:09:11 -08:00
subtree git-subtree: fix typo in manpage 2012-12-22 20:21:48 -08:00
svn-fe Add a svnrdump-simulator replaying a dump file for testing 2012-10-07 14:10:17 -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: simplify instructions for old vim support 2013-01-10 14:58:54 -08:00
workdir prefer test -h over test -L in shell scripts 2010-09-27 10:48:23 -07:00
README War on whitespace 2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
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 contrib/rerere-train: use installed git-sh-setup 2012-04-30 12:50:38 -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