[PATCH 1/8] Introduce new "tools/" directory

[Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>]

According to its readme, the "contrib/" directory's main intent is to
collect stuff that is not an official part of Git, either because it is
too specialized or because it is still considered experimental. The
reality tells a bit of a different story though: while it _does_ contain
such things, it also contains other things:

  - Our credential helpers, which are being distributed by many
    packagers nowadays and which can be considered "stable".

  - A bunch of tooling that relates to our build and test
    infrastructure.

Especially the second category is somewhat of a sore spot. You really
wouldn't expect build-related tooling to be considered an optional part
of Git. Quite the opposite.

Create a new top-level "tools/" directory to fix this discrepancy. This
directory will contain all kind of tools that are related to our build
infrastructure and that Git developers are likely to use day to day.

For now, this directory doesn't contain anything yet except for a
readme and a Meson skeleton. This will change in subsequent commits.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
---
 Makefile          | 2 ++
 meson.build       | 1 +
 tools/README.md   | 7 +++++++
 tools/meson.build | 0
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f3264d0a37..c7cedbcd7c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1066,11 +1066,13 @@ SOURCES_CMD = ( \
 		'*.sh' \
 		':!*[tp][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]*' \
 		':!contrib' \
+		':!tools' \
 		2>/dev/null || \
 	$(FIND) . \
 		\( -name .git -type d -prune \) \
 		-o \( -name '[tp][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]*' -prune \) \
 		-o \( -name contrib -type d -prune \) \
+		-o \( -name tools -type d -prune \) \
 		-o \( -name build -type d -prune \) \
 		-o \( -name .build -type d -prune \) \
 		-o \( -name 'trash*' -type d -prune \) \
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 4b536e0124..1d66b5181e 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -2149,6 +2149,7 @@ else
 endif
 
 subdir('contrib')
+subdir('tools')
 
 # Note that the target is intentionally configured after including the
 # 'contrib' directory, as some tool there also have their own manpages.
diff --git a/tools/README.md b/tools/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d732997136
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Developer Tooling
+-----------------
+
+This directory is expected to contain all sorts of tooling that
+relates to our build infrastructure. This includes scripts and
+inputs required by our build systems, but also scripts that
+developers are expected to run manually.
diff --git a/tools/meson.build b/tools/meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2

-- 
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