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@xxxxxxxxx>
---
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
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1.8.1.209.gc32ab23
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