git-commit-vandalism/contrib
Johannes Schindelin 775477aa1d Teach import-tars about GNU tar's @LongLink extension.
This extension allows GNU tar to process file names in excess of the 100
characters defined by the original tar standard. It does this by faking a
file, named '././@LongLink' containing the true file name, and then adding
the file with a truncated name. The idea is that tar without this
extension will write out a file with the long file name, and write the
contents into a file with truncated name.

Unfortunately, GNU tar does a lousy job at times. When truncating results
in a _directory_ name, it will happily use _that_ as a truncated name for
the file.

An example where this actually happens is gcc-4.1.2, where the full path
of the file WeThrowThisExceptionHelper.java truncates _exactly_ before the
basename. So, we have to support that ad-hoc extension.

This bug was noticed by Chris Riddoch on IRC.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-05-02 13:22:34 -04:00
..
blameview blameview: Fix the browse behavior in blameview 2007-02-27 21:41:48 -08:00
completion Remove git-diff-stages. 2007-02-12 19:33:03 -08:00
continuous contrib/continuous: a continuous integration build manager 2007-03-19 22:21:19 -07:00
emacs DESTDIR support for git/contrib/emacs 2007-04-05 14:14:55 -07:00
examples Make gc a builtin. 2007-03-17 00:34:19 -07:00
fast-import Teach import-tars about GNU tar's @LongLink extension. 2007-05-02 13:22:34 -04:00
gitview [PATCH] Rename git-repo-config to git-config. 2007-01-28 16:16:53 -08:00
hg-to-git Add hg-to-git conversion utility. 2007-02-05 13:52:45 -08:00
hooks rename contrib/hooks/post-receieve-email to contrib/hooks/post-receive-email. 2007-04-04 22:17:59 -07:00
vim contrib/vim: update syntax for changed commit template 2007-01-22 20:40:26 -08:00
workdir contrib/workdir: add a simple script to create a working directory 2007-03-31 01:26:28 -07:00
README Add contrib/README. 2006-02-17 13:33:14 -08:00
remotes2config.sh [PATCH] Rename git-repo-config to git-config. 2007-01-28 16:16:53 -08:00

Contributed Software

Although these pieces are available as part of the official git
source tree, they are in somewhat different status.  The
intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe
even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them,
and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved
faster.

I am not expecting to touch these myself that much.  As far as
my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are
owned by their respective primary authors.  I am willing to help
if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners"
have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to
fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree
owners.  IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for
enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so
just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch.  If
you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be
first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author
should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer).
This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a
lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the
drill.

I expect that things that start their life in the contrib/ area
to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming
projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory.  On
the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused
and inactive ones from time to time.

If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose
it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves
there are some general interests (it does not have to be a
list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow
audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose
upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is
of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN
repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport),
submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your
stuff there.

-jc