git/contrib
Junio C Hamano bca900904d Merge branch 'ps/refs-without-the-repository'
The refs API lost functions that implicitly assumes to work on the
primary ref_store by forcing the callers to pass a ref_store as an
argument.

* ps/refs-without-the-repository:
  refs: remove functions without ref store
  cocci: apply rules to rewrite callers of "refs" interfaces
  cocci: introduce rules to transform "refs" to pass ref store
  refs: add `exclude_patterns` parameter to `for_each_fullref_in()`
  refs: introduce missing functions that accept a `struct ref_store`
2024-05-16 10:10:14 -07:00
..
buildsystems cmake: let test-tool run the unit tests, too 2024-05-06 14:11:45 -07:00
coccinelle cocci: introduce rules to transform "refs" to pass ref store 2024-05-07 10:06:59 -07:00
completion Merge branch 'dk/zsh-git-repo-path-fix' 2024-05-08 10:18:46 -07:00
contacts
credential osxkeychain: store new attributes 2024-04-01 15:38:20 -07:00
diff-highlight
emacs
examples
fast-import
git-jump
git-shell-commands
hooks
long-running-filter
mw-to-git
persistent-https
remote-helpers
stats
subtree contrib/subtree/t: avoid redundant use of cat 2024-03-16 11:08:55 -07:00
thunderbird-patch-inline
update-unicode
vscode path: remove mksnpath() 2024-04-05 09:49:38 -07:00
workdir
coverage-diff.sh contrib/coverage-diff: avoid redundant pipelines 2024-03-16 11:08:57 -07:00
git-resurrect.sh
README
remotes2config.sh
rerere-train.sh

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 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 is general interest (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