git/contrib
Giuseppe Bilotta 6872f606d9 import-tars: separate author from committer
The import-tars script is typically employed to (re)create the past
history of a project from stored tars. Although assigning authorship in
these cases can be a somewhat arbitrary process, it makes sense to set
the author to whoever created the tars in the first place (if it's
known), and (s)he can in general be different from the committer
(whoever is running the script).

Implement this by having separate author and committer data, making them
settable from the usual GIT_* environment variables.

Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-20 09:33:28 -07:00
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blameview
completion Merge branch 'js/remote-improvements' 2009-03-17 18:55:06 -07:00
continuous
convert-objects
difftool contrib/difftool: use a separate config namespace for difftool commands 2009-03-11 21:54:59 -07:00
emacs Add a README in the contrib/emacs directory. 2009-02-21 13:57:53 +01:00
examples Fix typo in contrib/examples/git-svnimport.txt 2009-02-25 08:33:14 -08:00
fast-import import-tars: separate author from committer 2009-03-20 09:33:28 -07:00
gitview
hg-to-git
hooks Fix contrib/hooks/post-receive-email for new duplicate branch 2009-02-11 10:38:53 -08:00
p4import
patches
stats
thunderbird-patch-inline
vim contrib/vim: change URL to point to the latest syntax files 2009-01-12 23:36:03 -08:00
workdir Always show which directory is not a git repository 2008-12-21 18:46:41 -08:00
git-resurrect.sh contrib git-resurrect: find traces of a branch name and resurrect it 2009-02-04 15:07:49 -08:00
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 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