From: Jason Holden Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:18:55 GMT Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Provide better guidance for submitting patches against git-gui, gitk Message-ID: <1356891535-5647-3-git-send-email-jason.k.holden.swdev@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1356891535-5647-1-git-send-email-jason.k.holden.swdev@gmail.com> git-gui and gitk 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..b82d426 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 the GUI's + - gitk and git-gui 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