From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [PATCH 2/3] SubmittingPatches: mention subsystems with dedicated repositories Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 15:24:54 -0800 Message-ID: <1357082695-29713-3-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> References: <1357082695-29713-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> Cc: Jason Holden To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 02 00:25:29 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TqBD4-0001ZC-9r for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:25:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752270Ab3AAXZF (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jan 2013 18:25:05 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:63667 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751679Ab3AAXZC (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jan 2013 18:25:02 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0F21A4FB; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 18:25:01 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references; s=sasl; bh=t6p9 to1bCgIbOrauIlwuiMf+4Qw=; b=AI7pC3bbYp+f0FybDLuyIx3SVj4u9MzOv59o MuGG/FChom/SMzQlT5EdUmr3XuT5WTGLYR07x6pXazs25ApT6LzkufYKkX1IjhmU Yn4sK/j3ctrUL0f/Z0FoEAlO5YY250abPKrBrB/FhBSB9BRXohTZ5Nw7jq1hjWdS fyynpeM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references; q=dns; s=sasl; b= NfCAHQEdP9ifNUWmYUOuS9/D/TNtA52WTwGaStUeNLU5lrMRVWBb0zmTECPY2CN2 wR3SebhuoBj2/MIFp2VeYgmqT/7pA+yQTsBFHPRQSRZ8Rqz5TAww9izbkGLvaTEM ir6Hs482KfNHeKaax0Hmo2u98z6wyoZel+cvnARE4P4= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B09A0A4FA; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 18:25:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 17C0AA4F9; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 18:25:00 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.209.gc32ab23 In-Reply-To: <1357082695-29713-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 76CE7B88-546A-11E2-BE8E-F0CE2E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index b9fd182..e810263 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 -- 1.8.1.209.gc32ab23