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authorEric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>2014-12-30 18:30:30 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-01-07 10:21:17 -0800
commit860109937386f2d103a71d3f703ad34cc1ebd136 (patch)
tree2aaf10186656972774135fdaceee7a86cd2f50b9
parentc2e8e4b9da4d007b15faa2e3d407b2fd279f0572 (diff)
downloadgit-sb/doc-submitting-patches-keep-notes.tar.gz
SubmittingPatches: explain rationale for using --notes with format-patchsb/doc-submitting-patches-keep-notes
While here, also change grammatically poor "three dash lines" to "three-dash line". Suggested-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -175,8 +175,11 @@ message starts, you can put a "From: " line to name that person.
You often want to add additional explanation about the patch,
other than the commit message itself. Place such "cover letter"
-material between the three dash lines and the diffstat. Git-notes
-can also be inserted using the `--notes` option.
+material between the three-dash line and the diffstat. For
+patches requiring multiple iterations of review and discussion,
+an explanation of changes between each iteration can be kept in
+Git-notes and inserted automatically following the three-dash
+line via `git format-patch --notes`.
Do not attach the patch as a MIME attachment, compressed or not.
Do not let your e-mail client send quoted-printable. Do not let