git/contrib
Johannes Schindelin b490283d52 cmake (Windows): initialize vcpkg/build dependencies automatically
The idea of having CMake support in Git's source tree is to enable
contributors on Windows to start contributing with little effort. To
that end, we just added some sensible defaults that will let users open
the worktree in Visual Studio and start building.

This expects the dependencies (such as zlib) to be available already,
though. If they are not available, we expect the user to run
`compat/vcbuild/vcpkg_install.bat`.

Rather than requiring this step to be manual, detect the situation and
run it as part of the CMake configuration step.

Note that this obviously only applies to the scenario when we want to
compile in Visual Studio (i.e. with MS Visual C), not with GCC.
Therefore, we guard this new code block behind the `MSVC` conditional.

This concludes our journey to make it as effortless as possible to start
developing Git in Visual Studio: all the developer needs to do is to
clone Git's repository, open the worktree via `File>Open>Folder...` and
wait for CMake to finish configuring.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-30 13:26:36 -07:00
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buildsystems cmake (Windows): initialize vcpkg/build dependencies automatically 2020-09-30 13:26:36 -07:00
coccinelle commit: move members graph_pos, generation to a slab 2020-06-17 14:37:30 -07:00
completion contrib/completion: complete options that take refs for format-patch 2020-09-17 15:23:22 -07:00
contacts
credential contrib/credential/netrc: work outside a repo 2019-12-20 12:40:52 -08:00
diff-highlight diff-highlight: fix a whitespace nit 2019-10-15 14:08:37 +09:00
emacs git{,-blame}.el: remove old bitrotting Emacs code 2018-04-16 17:25:49 +09:00
examples Merge branch 'bw/c-plus-plus' into ds/lazy-load-trees 2018-04-11 10:46:32 +09:00
fast-import import-tars: ignore the global PAX header 2020-03-24 14:39:47 -07:00
git-jump contrib/git-jump/git-jump: jump to exact location 2018-06-22 12:59:02 -07:00
git-shell-commands
hg-to-git hg-to-git: make it compatible with both python3 and python2 2019-09-18 12:03:05 -07:00
hooks multimail: fix a few simple spelling errors 2019-11-10 16:00:55 +09:00
long-running-filter
mw-to-git Fix spelling errors in no-longer-updated-from-upstream modules 2019-11-10 16:00:55 +09:00
persistent-https
remote-helpers
stats
subtree Merge branch 'dl/subtree-docs' 2020-08-24 14:54:33 -07:00
thunderbird-patch-inline
update-unicode unicode_width.h: rename to use dash in file name 2018-04-11 18:11:00 +09:00
vscode vscode: let cSpell work on commit messages, too 2018-07-30 13:14:39 -07:00
workdir
coverage-diff.sh contrib: add coverage-diff script 2018-10-10 10:11:35 +09:00
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