git/contrib
Junio C Hamano 805265fcf7 Merge branch 'ab/fewer-the-index-macros'
Squelch warnings from Coccinelle

* ab/fewer-the-index-macros:
  cocci: avoid "should ... be a metavariable" warnings
2022-12-01 18:38:07 +09:00
..
buildsystems Makefile & test-tool: replace "DC_SHA1" variable with a "define" 2022-11-07 22:11:51 -05:00
coccinelle Merge branch 'ab/fewer-the-index-macros' 2022-12-01 18:38:07 +09:00
completion git-prompt: show presence of unresolved conflicts at command prompt 2022-08-19 10:58:40 -07:00
contacts
credential osxkeychain: clarify that we ignore unknown lines 2022-09-22 14:21:04 -07:00
diff-highlight diff-highlight: correctly match blank lines for flush 2020-09-21 22:33:28 -07:00
emacs
examples
fast-import import-tars: ignore the global PAX header 2020-03-24 14:39:47 -07:00
git-jump git-jump: pass "merge" arguments to ls-files 2021-11-09 11:15:21 -08:00
git-shell-commands
hg-to-git hg-to-git: make it compatible with both python3 and python2 2019-09-18 12:03:05 -07:00
hooks multimail: stop shipping a copy 2021-06-11 13:35:19 +09:00
long-running-filter
mw-to-git t6000-t9999: detect and signal failure within loop 2021-12-13 10:29:48 -08:00
persistent-https
remote-helpers
stats
subtree subtree: fix split after annotated tag was squashed merged 2022-10-21 13:51:06 -07:00
thunderbird-patch-inline
update-unicode
vscode vscode: improve tab size and wrapping 2022-06-27 15:37:44 -07:00
workdir
coverage-diff.sh
git-resurrect.sh contrib/git-resurrect.sh: use hash-agnostic OID pattern 2020-10-08 11:48:56 -07:00
README
remotes2config.sh
rerere-train.sh contrib/rerere-train: avoid useless gpg sign in training 2022-07-19 11:24:08 -07:00

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