Re: [PATCH 3/6] SubmittingPatches: discourage common Linux trailers

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com writes:

> This project does regularly mention what commits a patch/commit fixes,
> but that is done inline in the commit message proper (c.f. the trailer
> block of the message).

"cf."?

> Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/ [2]

;-)

> Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
> ---
>  Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> index 51c308a89a8..5dc32128883 100644
> --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> @@ -479,6 +479,10 @@ to be accepted since these are the most common ones. But another kind of
>  trailer might be relevant, for example to link to an issue tracker
>  belonging to a downstream project that is affected by a bug in Git.
>  
> +Other projects might regularly refer to other kinds of data, like
> +`Fixes:` and `Link:` in the Linux Kernel project, but these ones in
> +particular are not used in this project.
> +
>  Only capitalize the very first letter of the trailer, i.e. favor
>  "Signed-off-by" over "Signed-Off-By" and "Acked-by:" over "Acked-By".