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List:       git
Subject:    [PATCH 2/2] Provide better guidance for submitting patches against git-gui, gitk
From:       Jason Holden <jason.k.holden.swdev () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-12-30 18:18:55
Message-ID: 1356891535-5647-3-git-send-email-jason.k.holden.swdev () gmail ! com
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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 <jason.k.holden.swdev@gmail.com>
---
 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

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