git/contrib
Junio C Hamano 169c9c0169 Merge branch 'bw/c-plus-plus'
Avoid using identifiers that clash with C++ keywords.  Even though
it is not a goal to compile Git with C++ compilers, changes like
this help use of code analysis tools that targets C++ on our
codebase.

* bw/c-plus-plus: (37 commits)
  replace: rename 'new' variables
  trailer: rename 'template' variables
  tempfile: rename 'template' variables
  wrapper: rename 'template' variables
  environment: rename 'namespace' variables
  diff: rename 'template' variables
  environment: rename 'template' variables
  init-db: rename 'template' variables
  unpack-trees: rename 'new' variables
  trailer: rename 'new' variables
  submodule: rename 'new' variables
  split-index: rename 'new' variables
  remote: rename 'new' variables
  ref-filter: rename 'new' variables
  read-cache: rename 'new' variables
  line-log: rename 'new' variables
  imap-send: rename 'new' variables
  http: rename 'new' variables
  entry: rename 'new' variables
  diffcore-delta: rename 'new' variables
  ...
2018-03-06 14:54:07 -08:00
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buildsystems
coccinelle Merge branch 'rs/cocci-strbuf-addf-to-addstr' 2018-02-15 14:55:44 -08:00
completion Merge branch 'nd/rebase-show-current-patch' 2018-03-06 14:54:02 -08:00
contacts git-contacts: also recognise "Reported-by:" 2017-07-27 09:42:55 -07:00
credential Merge branch 'tz/fsf-address-update' into maint 2017-11-21 14:05:32 +09:00
diff-highlight diff-highlight: add clean target to Makefile 2017-09-06 12:56:26 +09:00
emacs Replace Free Software Foundation address in license notices 2017-11-09 13:21:21 +09:00
examples Merge branch 'bw/c-plus-plus' 2018-03-06 14:54:07 -08:00
fast-import Replace Free Software Foundation address in license notices 2017-11-09 13:21:21 +09:00
git-jump git-jump: give contact instructions in the README 2017-11-21 11:01:02 +09:00
git-shell-commands
hg-to-git Replace Free Software Foundation address in license notices 2017-11-09 13:21:21 +09:00
hooks Spelling fixes 2017-06-27 10:35:49 -07:00
long-running-filter
mw-to-git Merge branch 'ab/mediawiki-namespace' 2017-11-15 12:14:32 +09:00
persistent-https docs/config: mention protocol implications of url.insteadOf 2017-06-01 10:07:10 +09:00
remote-helpers
stats
subtree Correct mispellings of ".gitmodule" to ".gitmodules" 2018-02-14 11:34:34 -08:00
svn-fe
thunderbird-patch-inline
update-unicode
workdir git-new-workdir: mark script as LF-only 2017-05-10 13:32:50 +09:00
convert-grafts-to-replace-refs.sh
git-resurrect.sh Merge branch 'jc/bs-t-is-not-a-tab-for-sed' 2017-04-16 23:29:29 -07:00
README
remotes2config.sh
rerere-train.sh contrib/rerere-train: optionally overwrite existing resolutions 2017-07-26 13:38:48 -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