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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...>``