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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-01-01 14:35:22 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-01-01 14:35:22 -0800 |
| commit | adcc42e68d0f5e18f2e81249b797a5b5457366d4 (patch) | |
| tree | 572003ad34b9ebda6e53b62e22496b39a1d8e2ae /Documentation/SubmittingPatches | |
| parent | Git 1.8.0.3 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-adcc42e68d0f5e18f2e81249b797a5b5457366d4.tar.xz | |
SubmittingPatches: who am I and who cares?
The introductory text in the "long version" talks about the origin
of this document with "I started ...", but it is unclear who that I
is, and more importantly, it is not interesting how it was started.
Just state the purpose of the document to help readers decide if it
is releavant to them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index c34c9d12c6..b9fd182537 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -60,14 +60,8 @@ Checklist (and a short version for the impatient): Long version: -I started reading over the SubmittingPatches document for Linux -kernel, primarily because I wanted to have a document similar to -it for the core GIT to make sure people understand what they are -doing when they write "Signed-off-by" line. - -But the patch submission requirements are a lot more relaxed -here on the technical/contents front, because the core GIT is -thousand times smaller ;-). So here is only the relevant bits. +Here are some guidelines for people who want to contribute their code +to this software. (0) Decide what to base your work on. |