git/contrib
Junio C Hamano 8c9155e031 Merge branch 'jk/git-path'
git_path() and mkpath() are handy helper functions but it is easy
to misuse, as the callers need to be careful to keep the number of
active results below 4.  Their uses have been reduced.

* jk/git-path:
  memoize common git-path "constant" files
  get_repo_path: refactor path-allocation
  find_hook: keep our own static buffer
  refs.c: remove_empty_directories can take a strbuf
  refs.c: avoid git_path assignment in lock_ref_sha1_basic
  refs.c: avoid repeated git_path calls in rename_tmp_log
  refs.c: simplify strbufs in reflog setup and writing
  path.c: drop git_path_submodule
  refs.c: remove extra git_path calls from read_loose_refs
  remote.c: drop extraneous local variable from migrate_file
  prefer mkpathdup to mkpath in assignments
  prefer git_pathdup to git_path in some possibly-dangerous cases
  add_to_alternates_file: don't add duplicate entries
  t5700: modernize style
  cache.h: complete set of git_path_submodule helpers
  cache.h: clarify documentation for git_path, et al
2015-08-19 14:48:56 -07:00
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buildsystems mark Windows build scripts executable 2013-11-25 15:01:22 -08:00
completion Merge branch 'sg/bash-prompt-untracked-optim' 2015-08-03 11:01:26 -07:00
contacts contacts: add a Makefile to generate docs and install 2014-10-15 15:18:27 -07:00
convert-objects various contrib: Fix links in man pages 2014-08-07 09:43:21 -07:00
credential wincred: fix get credential if username has "@" 2015-01-25 20:08:56 -08:00
diff-highlight Merge branch 'jk/colors' into maint 2015-04-21 12:12:25 -07:00
emacs emacs: make 'git-status' work with separate git dirs 2012-11-26 09:34:28 -08:00
examples Merge branch 'jk/git-path' 2015-08-19 14:48:56 -07:00
fast-import comments: fix misuses of "nor" 2014-03-31 15:29:27 -07:00
git-jump git-jump: ignore (custom) prefix in diff mode 2012-09-17 12:31:57 -07:00
git-shell-commands Add sample commands for git-shell 2010-08-12 15:16:31 -07:00
gitview various contrib: Fix links in man pages 2014-08-07 09:43:21 -07:00
hg-to-git hg-to-git: --allow-empty-message in git commit 2013-07-23 12:17:23 -07:00
hooks Merge branch 'pa/auto-gc-mac-osx' into maint 2015-07-15 11:41:17 -07:00
mw-to-git Merge branch 'ep/shell-command-substitution' 2014-06-03 12:06:45 -07:00
persistent-https Add persistent-https to contrib 2012-05-30 13:50:45 -07:00
remote-helpers Revert "Merge branch 'jc/graduate-remote-hg-bzr' (early part)" 2014-05-20 14:48:11 -07:00
stats contrib: update stats/mailmap script 2012-12-12 11:09:11 -08:00
subtree Merge branch 'da/subtree-date-confusion' 2015-08-03 11:01:31 -07:00
svn-fe contrib/svn-fe: fix Makefile 2014-08-28 15:41:28 -07:00
thunderbird-patch-inline appp.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution 2014-04-23 15:17:01 -07:00
workdir git-new-workdir: don't fail if the target directory is empty 2014-12-03 12:49:24 -08:00
convert-grafts-to-replace-refs.sh contrib: add convert-grafts-to-replace-refs.sh 2014-07-21 12:05:53 -07:00
git-resurrect.sh git-sh-setup.sh: add variable to use the stuck-long mode 2014-02-03 12:11:10 -08:00
README War on whitespace 2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
remotes2config.sh contrib: Make remotes2config.sh script more robust 2007-12-04 14:35:08 -08:00
rerere-train.sh contrib/rerere-train: use installed git-sh-setup 2012-04-30 12:50:38 -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