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| author |  Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> | 2017-03-21 14:21:53 +0000 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-03-21 12:00:43 -0700 |
| commit | 2ee0056779a7fb736092fc78de10b7e908f46f25 (patch) | |
| tree | 93c4875780cfa932b68b89f827459941a61881ca /Documentation/SubmittingPatches | |
| parent | Preparing for 2.12.1 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-2ee0056779a7fb736092fc78de10b7e908f46f25.tar.xz | |
doc/SubmittingPatches: clarify the casing convention for "area: change..."
Amend the section which describes how the first line of the subject
should look like to say that the ":" in "area: " shouldn't be treated
like a full stop for the purposes of letter casing.
Change the two subject examples to make this new paragraph clearer,
i.e. "unstar" is not a common word, and "git-cherry-pick.txt" is a
much longer string than "githooks.txt". Pick two recent commits from
git.git that fit better for the description.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/SubmittingPatches')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 3faf7eb884..9ef624ce38 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -98,12 +98,17 @@ should skip the full stop. It is also conventional in most cases to prefix the first line with "area: " where the area is a filename or identifier for the general area of the code being modified, e.g. - . archive: ustar header checksum is computed unsigned - . git-cherry-pick.txt: clarify the use of revision range notation + . doc: clarify distinction between sign-off and pgp-signing + . githooks.txt: improve the intro section If in doubt which identifier to use, run "git log --no-merges" on the files you are modifying to see the current conventions. +It's customary to start the remainder of the first line after "area: " +with a lower-case letter. E.g. "doc: clarify...", not "doc: +Clarify...", or "githooks.txt: improve...", not "githooks.txt: +Improve...". + The body should provide a meaningful commit message, which: . explains the problem the change tries to solve, iow, what is wrong |