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.
 
+ - 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.
@@ -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:".
 
+------------------------------------------------
+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