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 <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index b9fd182537fb51c3d4954d238dfd4472ad9928c4..e810263a95d041524ab947a15ac07e779a85e162 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ change is relevant to.
    wait until some of the dependent topics graduate to 'master', and
    rebase your work.
 
    wait until some of the dependent topics graduate to 'master', and
    rebase your work.
 

+ - Some parts of the system have dedicated maintainers with their own
+   repositories (see the section "Subsystems" below).  Changes to
+   these parts should be based on their trees.
+

 To find the tip of a topic branch, run "git log --first-parent
 master..pu" and look for the merge commit. The second parent of this
 commit is the tip of the topic branch.
 To find the tip of a topic branch, run "git log --first-parent
 master..pu" and look for the merge commit. The second parent of this
 commit is the tip of the topic branch.


@@ -278,6 +282,26 @@ If you like, you can put extra tags at the end:
 You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage
 such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:".
 
 You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage
 such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:".
 

+------------------------------------------------
+Subsystems with dedicated maintainers
+
+Some parts of the system have dedicated maintainers with their own
+repositories.
+
+ - git-gui/ comes from git-gui project, maintained by Pat Thoyts:
+
+        git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git
+
+ - gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project:
+
+        git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk
+
+ - po/ comes from the localization coordinator, Jiang Xin:
+
+       https://github.com/git-l10n/git-po/
+
+Patches to these parts should be based on their trees.
+

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 An ideal patch flow
 
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 An ideal patch flow