git/contrib
Junio C Hamano 750054cd3f Merge branch 'jn/help-everywhere'
* jn/help-everywhere: (23 commits)
  diff --no-index: make the usage string less scary
  merge-{recursive,subtree}: use usagef() to print usage
  Introduce usagef() that takes a printf-style format
  Let 'git <command> -h' show usage without a git dir
  Show usage string for 'git http-push -h'
  Let 'git http-fetch -h' show usage outside any git repository
  Show usage string for 'git stripspace -h'
  Show usage string for 'git unpack-file -h'
  Show usage string for 'git show-index -h'
  Show usage string for 'git rev-parse -h'
  Show usage string for 'git merge-one-file -h'
  Show usage string for 'git mailsplit -h'
  Show usage string for 'git imap-send -h'
  Show usage string for 'git get-tar-commit-id -h'
  Show usage string for 'git fast-import -h'
  Show usage string for 'git check-ref-format -h'
  http-fetch: add missing initialization of argv0_path
  Show usage string for 'git show-ref -h'
  Show usage string for 'git merge-ours -h'
  Show usage string for 'git commit-tree -h'
  ...

Conflicts:
	imap-send.c
2009-11-20 23:44:52 -08:00
..
blameview
buildsystems Merge branch 'ef/msys-imap' 2009-11-17 22:03:00 -08:00
completion Merge branch 'sc/difftool-p4merge' 2009-11-15 16:40:50 -08:00
continuous
convert-objects Fix a bunch of pointer declarations (codestyle) 2009-05-01 15:17:31 -07:00
emacs git-blame.el: Change how blame information is shown. 2009-09-29 10:06:56 -07:00
examples Merge branch 'jn/help-everywhere' 2009-11-20 23:44:52 -08:00
fast-import import-tars: Add support for tarballs compressed with lzma, xz 2009-10-21 17:15:43 -07:00
gitview
hg-to-git hg-to-git: don't import the unused popen2 module 2009-08-04 15:20:45 -07:00
hooks Use 'fast-forward' all over the place 2009-10-24 23:50:28 -07:00
p4import
patches
stats
thunderbird-patch-inline Documentation: fix typos / spelling mistakes 2009-04-20 15:56:07 -07:00
vim
workdir
git-resurrect.sh
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