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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 <[email protected]>
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wait until some of the dependent topics graduate to 'master', and
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rebase your work.
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- Some parts of the system have dedicated maintainers with their own
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repositories (see the section "Subsystems" below). Changes to
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these parts should be based on their trees.
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To find the tip of a topic branch, run "git log --first-parent
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master..pu" and look for the merge commit. The second parent of this
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commit is the tip of the topic branch.
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You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage
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such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:".
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Subsystems with dedicated maintainers
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Some parts of the system have dedicated maintainers with their own
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repositories.
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- git-gui/ comes from git-gui project, maintained by Pat Thoyts:
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git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git
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- gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project:
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git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk
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- po/ comes from the localization coordinator, Jiang Xin:
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https://github.com/git-l10n/git-po/
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Patches to these parts should be based on their trees.
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An ideal patch flow
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