From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Holden Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] Provide better guidance for submitting patches against upstream utilities Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:19:35 -0500 Message-ID: <1356992375-11116-3-git-send-email-jason.k.holden.swdev@gmail.com> References: <1356992375-11116-1-git-send-email-jason.k.holden.swdev@gmail.com> Cc: gitster@pobox.com, th.acker@arcor.de, paulus@samba.org, patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net, worldhello.net@gmail.com, Jason Holden To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 31 23:21:34 2012 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 1Tpnjg-0005Cz-1E for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:21:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751936Ab2LaWVO (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:21:14 -0500 Received: from mail-vc0-f181.google.com ([209.85.220.181]:39915 "EHLO mail-vc0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751930Ab2LaWVL (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:21:11 -0500 Received: by mail-vc0-f181.google.com with SMTP id gb30so12923587vcb.26 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:21:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-mailer:in-reply-to :references; bh=SsVNP5iu5XQiGPAB0qllQ9shLbUVFTYx94D4dW1++xo=; b=Tm1VwBwK5VSNiCP5SfcXO5JcUYiN6xEEs19tIARaj5p+CM7++Ro9jiT46XYTmrDbdC zvL472u48rS0IaCy+hhn997oHxvibFqFXJN25K7olu7nzwXzJ2LY2ReSGFKw2/Fe/quL ZNIv2EgYlMJP2y0t0CeakDz6sQsfZ11H+o29zCCxLM53qt6MEYoICpgiv7ROTvPuqPhj wUc/+frCoN7gTwc67YMfsCoI4zskTF6mhX3rJh25Y6BWcAXKsnZ1Q9kX/lCOOPlAc9Uj G8eiMc45ZXQ2ijVUf3Xx15UyUXL7bD+d3A2hE41L62KdguvRJEvAWWnmY65v0SmjWadj ypIw== X-Received: by 10.58.68.74 with SMTP id u10mr68398949vet.21.1356992470288; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:21:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from rowblue.hsd1.nh.comcast.net (c-75-69-185-21.hsd1.nh.comcast.net. [75.69.185.21]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id di16sm39824172vdb.11.2012.12.31.14.21.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:21:09 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.rc3.28.g0ab5d1f In-Reply-To: <1356992375-11116-1-git-send-email-jason.k.holden.swdev@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 --- 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, + 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 + information and canonical repository location + Long version: I started reading over the SubmittingPatches document for Linux -- 1.8.1.rc3.28.g0ab5d1f