git/contrib
Junio C Hamano 62e83d4f69 Merge branch 'js/scalar'
Add pieces from "scalar" to contrib/.

* js/scalar:
  scalar: implement the `version` command
  scalar: implement the `delete` command
  scalar: teach 'reconfigure' to optionally handle all registered enlistments
  scalar: allow reconfiguring an existing enlistment
  scalar: implement the `run` command
  scalar: teach 'clone' to support the --single-branch option
  scalar: implement the `clone` subcommand
  scalar: implement 'scalar list'
  scalar: let 'unregister' handle a deleted enlistment directory gracefully
  scalar: 'unregister' stops background maintenance
  scalar: 'register' sets recommended config and starts maintenance
  scalar: create test infrastructure
  scalar: start documenting the command
  scalar: create a rudimentary executable
  scalar: add a README with a roadmap
2021-12-21 15:03:17 -08:00
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buildsystems Merge branch 'hn/reftable' 2021-12-15 09:39:45 -08:00
coccinelle index-pack: use xopen in init_thread 2021-09-10 14:22:50 -07:00
completion Merge branch 'en/zdiff3' 2021-12-15 09:39:47 -08:00
contacts
credential *.[ch] *_INIT macros: use { 0 } for a "zero out" idiom 2021-09-27 14:47:59 -07:00
diff-highlight
emacs
examples
fast-import
git-jump git-jump: pass "merge" arguments to ls-files 2021-11-09 11:15:21 -08:00
git-shell-commands
hg-to-git
hooks multimail: stop shipping a copy 2021-06-11 13:35:19 +09:00
long-running-filter
mw-to-git t: fix whitespace around && 2021-06-08 10:08:01 +09:00
persistent-https
remote-helpers
scalar scalar: implement the version command 2021-12-04 21:52:24 -08:00
stats
subtree subtree: fix assumption about the directory separator 2021-06-15 11:38:28 +09:00
thunderbird-patch-inline
update-unicode
vscode
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 Comment important codepaths regarding nuking untracked files/dirs 2021-09-27 13:38:37 -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