git-commit-vandalism/contrib
Shawn O. Pearce b767c792fa Teach update-paranoid how to store ACLs organized by groups
In some applications of this paranoid update hook the set of ACL
rules that need to be applied to a user can be large, and the
number of users that those rules must also be applied to can be
more than a handful of individuals.  Rather than repeating the same
rules multiple times (once for each user) we now allow users to be
members of groups, where the group supplies the list of ACL rules.
For various reasons we don't depend on the underlying OS groups
and instead perform our own group handling.

Users can be made a member of one or more groups by setting the
user.memberOf property within the "users/$who.acl" file:

  [user]
    memberOf = developer
	memberOf = administrator

This will cause the hook to also parse the "groups/$groupname.acl"
file for each value of user.memberOf, and merge any allow rules
that match the current repository with the user's own private rules
(if they had any).

Since some rules are basically the same but may have a component
differ based on the individual user, any user.* key may be inserted
into a rule using the "${user.foo}" syntax.  The allow rule does
not match if the user does not define one (and exactly one) value
for the key "foo".

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-10 00:59:43 -07:00
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blameview War on whitespace 2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
completion git-completion: add "git stash" 2007-08-04 03:14:28 -04:00
continuous contrib/continuous: a continuous integration build manager 2007-03-19 22:21:19 -07:00
emacs git.el: Take into account the core.excludesfile config option. 2007-07-31 23:05:43 -07:00
examples Rewrite "git-frotz" to "git frotz" 2007-07-02 22:52:14 -07:00
fast-import git-p4: Fix git-p4 submit to include only changed files in the perforce submit template. 2007-08-08 13:45:04 -07:00
gitview gitview: run blame with -C -C 2007-06-13 02:14:26 -07:00
hg-to-git Add hg-to-git conversion utility. 2007-02-05 13:52:45 -08:00
hooks Teach update-paranoid how to store ACLs organized by groups 2007-08-10 00:59:43 -07:00
p4import Demote git-p4import to contrib status. 2007-07-15 15:23:37 -07:00
patches INSTALL: add warning on docbook-xsl 1.72 and 1.73 2007-08-04 01:55:08 -07:00
stats Add contrib/stats/mailmap.pl script 2007-07-14 13:43:49 -07:00
vim contrib/vim: update syntax for changed commit template 2007-01-22 20:40:26 -08:00
workdir git-new-workdir: Fix shell warning about operator == used with test. 2007-06-26 18:18:47 -07:00
README War on whitespace 2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
remotes2config.sh Rewrite "git-frotz" to "git frotz" 2007-07-02 22:52:14 -07:00

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