[Buildroot] [PATCH 5 of 7] manual: contributing: don't recommend leaving out changelog from patches

Samuel Martin s.martin49 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 11:59:48 UTC 2014


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Thomas De Schampheleire
<patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, the manual states that if you send a series and include a
> changelog in the introduction mail (0 of x), it is not necessary to include
> a changelog on the individual patches.
> This is not always convenient: for large patch series it requires going back
> to the introduction mail when opening each patch, to understand what
> changed.
> This patch rewords the paragraph accordingly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>

Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com>

>
> ---
> v2: remove personal statements from commit message (Yann)
>
>  docs/manual/contribute.txt |  4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/docs/manual/contribute.txt b/docs/manual/contribute.txt
> --- a/docs/manual/contribute.txt
> +++ b/docs/manual/contribute.txt
> @@ -228,8 +228,8 @@ Patch revision changelog
>  When improvements are requested, the new revision of each commit
>  should include a changelog of the modifications between each
>  submission. Note that when your patch series is introduced by a cover
> -letter, the changelog may be added in the cover letter rather than in
> -the individual commits.
> +letter, an overall changelog may be added to the cover letter in
> +addition to the changelog in the individual commits.
>
>  When added to the individual commits, this changelog is added when
>  editing the commit message.  Below the +Signed-off-by+ section, add
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,Regards

-- 
Samuel


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