From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas De Schampheleire Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:24:33 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 7 of 8] manual: contributing: don't recommend leaving out changelog from patches In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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. I don't like this: 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 --- 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 @@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ 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