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author | Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> | 2018-10-31 11:06:50 -0700 |
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committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> | 2018-10-31 13:24:49 -0700 |
commit | f992b0977b0638485eb41733bc77873cb9448114 (patch) | |
tree | 0ec5c2aa09ea2afb6534996a261ed3d629e8c487 /Documentation/internals | |
parent | 2af1e18c742dff71f716a46f2f7a7a1f35e2c259 (diff) | |
download | openvswitch-f992b0977b0638485eb41733bc77873cb9448114.tar.gz |
submitting-patches: Advise not to wrap tags across multiple lines.
It makes parsing them more difficult.
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/internals')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst index 0ddd24502..d7e6e71e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst @@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ The description ends with a series of tags, written one to a line as the last paragraph of the email. Each tag indicates some property of the patch in an easily machine-parseable manner. +Please don't wrap a tag across multiple lines. If necessary, it's OK to have a +tag extend beyond the customary maximum width of a commit message. + Examples of common tags follow. ``Signed-off-by: Author Name <author.name@email.address...>`` |