Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Provide better guidance for submitting patches against upstream utilities
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:55:37
Jason Holden [off-list ref] writes:
quoted hunk
git-gui, gitk, and git-po are maintained upstream of git. Document this, and the procedure for submitting patches to these tools Signed-off-by: Jason Holden <redacted> --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 75935d5..30b95a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches@@ -58,6 +58,17 @@ Checklist (and a short version for the impatient): please test it first by sending email to yourself. - see below for instructions specific to your mailer + Improving upstream utilities (gitk, git-gui, git-po) + - gitk, git-gui, and git-po are maintained upstream of Git + despite being included in Git's git repository + - Patches should be made against the upstream gui repository,
GUI?
+ and not against the version in Git's git repository + - The resulting patch should still be emailed for review + to the git mailing list (git@vger.kernel.org), cc'ing the + applicable gui maintainer + - Please see the MAINTAINER's file for the gui maintainer's contact
GUI? Perhaps "parts with sub-maintainers' with their own repositories". In any case, I think it is probably much better not to add a new file at the top of the tree only to hold twenty-or-so lines. Instead, add the contents as a footnote to this file and refer to it from here.