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Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:46:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Kristoffer Haugsbakk Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] SubmittingPatches: discourage common Linux trailers In-Reply-To: (kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com's message of "Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:22:46 +0200") References: Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:46:32 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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 > --- > 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".