git/contrib
Junio C Hamano 425e7f0532 Merge branch 'en/complete-sparse-checkout'
Command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete path
arguments to the "add/set" subcommands of "git sparse-checkout"
better.

* en/complete-sparse-checkout:
  completion: avoid user confusion in non-cone mode
  completion: avoid misleading completions in cone mode
  completion: fix logic for determining whether cone mode is active
  completion: squelch stray errors in sparse-checkout completion
2023-12-20 10:14:52 -08:00
..
buildsystems Merge branch 'js/doc-unit-tests-with-cmake' 2023-12-09 16:37:47 -08:00
coccinelle config: pass kvi to die_bad_number() 2023-06-28 14:06:40 -07:00
completion completion: avoid user confusion in non-cone mode 2023-12-03 15:35:40 +09:00
contacts
credential Merge branch 'mh/credential-erase-improvements-more' 2023-08-28 09:51:16 -07:00
diff-highlight perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8.1 from 5.8.0 2023-11-17 07:26:32 +09:00
emacs
examples
fast-import
git-jump git-jump: admit to passing merge mode args to ls-files 2023-10-05 12:55:38 -07:00
git-shell-commands
hg-to-git
hooks
long-running-filter
mw-to-git Merge branch 'tz/send-email-negatable-options' 2023-12-09 16:37:51 -08:00
persistent-https
remote-helpers
stats
subtree contrib/subtree: convert subtree type check to use case statement 2023-11-11 09:21:00 +09:00
thunderbird-patch-inline
update-unicode
vscode
workdir
coverage-diff.sh
git-resurrect.sh
README doc: fix some typos, grammar and wording issues 2023-10-05 12:55:38 -07:00
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