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| author | Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com> | 2023-12-28 07:55:21 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-12-28 08:33:23 +0300 |
| commit | 08e2e6f8d27539b7573c9ce3b5e4958b93876229 (patch) | |
| tree | 02dc6c54b40988809dc72d638349391ea9e7ef00 /Documentation | |
| parent | c771ef6f77d36fc9bfe6e70f805f52f84f681536 (diff) | |
SubmittingPatches: provide tag naming advice
Current statistics show a strong preference to only capitalize the first
letter in a hyphenated tag, but that some guidance would be helpful:
git log |
perl -ne 'next unless /^\s+(?:Signed-[oO]ff|Acked)-[bB]y:/;
s/^\s+//;s/:.*/:/;print'|
sort|uniq -c|sort -n
2 Signed-off-By:
4 Signed-Off-by:
22 Acked-By:
47 Signed-Off-By:
2202 Acked-by:
95315 Signed-off-by:
Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 31878cb70b..94c874ab5e 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -368,6 +368,9 @@ While you can also create your own trailer if the situation warrants it, we encourage you to instead use one of the common trailers in this project highlighted above. +Only capitalize the very first letter of tags, i.e. favor +"Signed-off-by" over "Signed-Off-By" and "Acked-by:" over "Acked-By". + [[git-tools]] === Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits. |