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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-01-01 14:37:56 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-01-01 14:37:56 -0800 |
| commit | e6da8ee8d84fe0ea6dc99ac625d7e0e07246f39d (patch) | |
| tree | afd0208832c514c1969a6ef75a91823b8ab6da7e /Documentation/SubmittingPatches | |
| parent | SubmittingPatches: who am I and who cares? (diff) | |
| download | tgif-e6da8ee8d84fe0ea6dc99ac625d7e0e07246f39d.tar.xz | |
SubmittingPatches: mention subsystems with dedicated repositories
These were only mentioned in periodical "A note from the maintainer"
posting and not in the documentation suite. SubmittingPatches has a
section to help contributors decide on what commit to base their
changes, which is the most suitable place for this information.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index b9fd182537..e810263a95 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ change is relevant to. wait until some of the dependent topics graduate to 'master', and rebase your work. + - Some parts of the system have dedicated maintainers with their own + repositories (see the section "Subsystems" below). Changes to + these parts should be based on their trees. + To find the tip of a topic branch, run "git log --first-parent master..pu" and look for the merge commit. The second parent of this commit is the tip of the topic branch. @@ -279,6 +283,26 @@ You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:". ------------------------------------------------ +Subsystems with dedicated maintainers + +Some parts of the system have dedicated maintainers with their own +repositories. + + - git-gui/ comes from git-gui project, maintained by Pat Thoyts: + + git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git + + - gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project: + + git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk + + - po/ comes from the localization coordinator, Jiang Xin: + + https://github.com/git-l10n/git-po/ + +Patches to these parts should be based on their trees. + +------------------------------------------------ An ideal patch flow Here is an ideal patch flow for this project the current maintainer |