From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [PATCH 1/3] SubmittingPatches: who am I and who cares? Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 15:24:53 -0800 Message-ID: <1357082695-29713-2-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> References: <1357082695-29713-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> Cc: Jason Holden To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 02 00:25:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TqBCx-0001U8-Aq for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:25:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752219Ab3AAXZB (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jan 2013 18:25:01 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:63650 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751976Ab3AAXZA (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jan 2013 18:25:00 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3998A4F8; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 18:24:59 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references; s=sasl; bh=dmwM 0uqoI/AlvEHp4GFDAe9igHg=; b=cy5tORnemCFvlkaIx4nk837tEzjHJY7HhKnh NRbzPzJq12tK3wON2mfYwpO4U9iQObpJIRmp95tgLnvoCQVc8QRVKBxXnstu1HZo ZZbArJHO2tnqGn7Pg32D0WtDwETnSNePgJ79swhhQ75bhQ2q6L0tWiQxa/M6ODrT 33nRWIE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references; q=dns; s=sasl; b= yi1baQfSV6Yw6O3pUlwuP4uRljI+ucZEM26MQbiVTmucs0wTGQnqVvGdbiykDvo9 TeIcTBCCEXdpY09GC9s4xtIpYiOptxnCKsDvwBwrdXDsud74JimHrU//7g/p/7MF dBZ9/I/VfVYvWFM+a84TsDncklVk+SfiaV3lS0eC+Mc= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A73A4F7; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 18:24:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0952CA4F5; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 18:24:58 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.209.gc32ab23 In-Reply-To: <1357082695-29713-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 75943B54-546A-11E2-B4CD-F0CE2E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The introductory text in the "long version" talks about the origin of this document with "I started ...", but it is unclear who that I is, and more importantly, it is not interesting how it was started. Just state the purpose of the document to help readers decide if it is releavant to them. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 10 ++-------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index c34c9d1..b9fd182 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -60,14 +60,8 @@ Checklist (and a short version for the impatient): Long version: -I started reading over the SubmittingPatches document for Linux -kernel, primarily because I wanted to have a document similar to -it for the core GIT to make sure people understand what they are -doing when they write "Signed-off-by" line. - -But the patch submission requirements are a lot more relaxed -here on the technical/contents front, because the core GIT is -thousand times smaller ;-). So here is only the relevant bits. +Here are some guidelines for people who want to contribute their code +to this software. (0) Decide what to base your work on. -- 1.8.1.209.gc32ab23