git/contrib
Junio C Hamano 81eab6871e Merge branch 'js/range-diff'
"git tbdiff" that lets us compare individual patches in two
iterations of a topic has been rewritten and made into a built-in
command.

* js/range-diff: (21 commits)
  range-diff: use dim/bold cues to improve dual color mode
  range-diff: make --dual-color the default mode
  range-diff: left-pad patch numbers
  completion: support `git range-diff`
  range-diff: populate the man page
  range-diff --dual-color: skip white-space warnings
  range-diff: offer to dual-color the diffs
  diff: add an internal option to dual-color diffs of diffs
  color: add the meta color GIT_COLOR_REVERSE
  range-diff: use color for the commit pairs
  range-diff: add tests
  range-diff: do not show "function names" in hunk headers
  range-diff: adjust the output of the commit pairs
  range-diff: suppress the diff headers
  range-diff: indent the diffs just like tbdiff
  range-diff: right-trim commit messages
  range-diff: also show the diff between patches
  range-diff: improve the order of the shown commits
  range-diff: first rudimentary implementation
  Introduce `range-diff` to compare iterations of a topic branch
  ...
2018-08-20 11:33:53 -07:00
..
buildsystems
coccinelle coccinelle: update commit.cocci 2018-07-16 10:54:31 -07:00
completion range-diff: make --dual-color the default mode 2018-08-13 10:44:52 -07:00
contacts git-contacts: also recognise "Reported-by:" 2017-07-27 09:42:55 -07:00
credential git-credential-netrc: make "all" default target of Makefile 2018-06-18 14:58:59 -07:00
diff-highlight diff-highlight: detect --graph by indent 2018-03-21 10:24:19 -07:00
emacs git{,-blame}.el: remove old bitrotting Emacs code 2018-04-16 17:25:49 +09:00
examples Merge branch 'bw/c-plus-plus' into ds/lazy-load-trees 2018-04-11 10:46:32 +09:00
fast-import import-tars: read overlong names from pax extended header 2018-05-24 08:35:51 +09:00
git-jump contrib/git-jump/git-jump: jump to exact location 2018-06-22 12:59:02 -07:00
git-shell-commands
hg-to-git Replace Free Software Foundation address in license notices 2017-11-09 13:21:21 +09:00
hooks hooks/pre-auto-gc-battery: allow gc to run on non-laptops 2018-02-28 14:24:46 -08:00
long-running-filter docs: warn about possible '=' in clean/smudge filter process values 2016-12-06 11:29:52 -08:00
mw-to-git mw-to-git/t9360: fix broken &&-chain 2018-07-31 11:23:23 -07:00
persistent-https docs/config: mention protocol implications of url.insteadOf 2017-06-01 10:07:10 +09:00
remote-helpers contrib: git-remote-{bzr,hg} placeholders don't need Python 2017-03-03 11:09:34 -08:00
stats
subtree subtree test: simplify preparation of expected results 2018-07-30 13:58:16 -07:00
svn-fe contrib/svn-fe: fix Makefile 2014-08-28 15:41:28 -07:00
thunderbird-patch-inline contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution 2015-12-27 15:33:13 -08:00
update-unicode unicode_width.h: rename to use dash in file name 2018-04-11 18:11:00 +09:00
vscode vscode: let cSpell work on commit messages, too 2018-07-30 13:14:39 -07:00
workdir git-new-workdir: mark script as LF-only 2017-05-10 13:32:50 +09:00
README
git-resurrect.sh Merge branch 'jc/bs-t-is-not-a-tab-for-sed' 2017-04-16 23:29:29 -07:00
remotes2config.sh
rerere-train.sh contrib/rerere-train: optionally overwrite existing resolutions 2017-07-26 13:38:48 -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