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authorBen Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>2018-10-31 11:06:50 -0700
committerBen Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>2018-10-31 13:24:49 -0700
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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>
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@@ -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...>``