git/contrib
Eric Wong 9d55b41aad git-svn: add some functionality to better support branches in svn
New commands:

graft-branches - The most interesting command of the bunch.  It
detects branches in SVN via various techniques (currently
regexes and file copies).   It can be later extended to handle
svk and other properties people may use to track merges in svk.
Basically, merge tracking is not standardized at all in the SVN
world, and git grafts are perfect for dealing with this
situation.

Existing branch support (via tree matches) is only handled at
fetch time.

The following tow were originally implemented as shell scripts
several months ago, but I just decided to streamline things a
bit and added them to the main script.

multi-init - supports git-svnimport-like command-line syntax for
importing repositories that are layed out as recommended by the
SVN folks.  This is a bit more tolerant than the git-svnimport
command-line syntax and doesn't require the user to figure out
where the repository URL ends and where the repository path
begins.

multi-fetch - runs fetch on all known SVN branches we're
tracking.  This will NOT discover new branches (unlike
git-svnimport), so multi-init will need to be re-run (it's
idempotent).

Consider these three to be auxilliary commands (like
show-ignore, and rebuild) so their behavior won't receive as
much testing or scrutiny as the core commands (fetch and
commit).

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2006-06-16 03:04:20 -07:00
..
colordiff Add colordiff for git to contrib/colordiff. 2006-04-21 22:24:30 -07:00
emacs git.el: Added a function to diff against the other heads in a merge. 2006-03-19 12:30:14 -08:00
git-svn git-svn: add some functionality to better support branches in svn 2006-06-16 03:04:20 -07:00
gitview gitview: Add some useful keybindings. 2006-06-04 13:29:36 -07:00
README Add contrib/README. 2006-02-17 13:33:14 -08:00
remotes2config.sh Add a conversion tool to migrate remote information into the config 2006-05-04 00:07:06 -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