From e6da8ee8d84fe0ea6dc99ac625d7e0e07246f39d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 14:37:56 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) 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 -- 2.11.4.GIT