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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-10-07 20:07:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-10-07 23:59:25 +0200 |
| commit | 3991bb73dd01332459c84a72365daa17065c62ea (patch) | |
| tree | 22efd562adeebed77f00d74b0872e07f1d725857 | |
| parent | Merge a handful of topics from the 'master' front (diff) | |
| download | git-3991bb73dd01332459c84a72365daa17065c62ea.tar.xz git-3991bb73dd01332459c84a72365daa17065c62ea.zip | |
SubmittingPatches: use usual capitalization in the log message body
Update the description of the summary section to clarify that the
"do not capitalize" rule applies only the word after the "<area>:"
prefix of the title and nowhere else. This hopefully will prevent
folks from writing their proposed log message in all lowercase.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 5bd795e5db..927f7329a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -153,7 +153,9 @@ files you are modifying to see the current conventions. [[summary-section]] The title sentence after the "area:" prefix omits the full stop at the -end, and its first word is not capitalized unless there is a reason to +end, and its first word is not capitalized (the omission +of capitalization applies only to the word after the "area:" +prefix of the title) unless there is a reason to capitalize it other than because it is the first word in the sentence. E.g. "doc: clarify...", not "doc: Clarify...", or "githooks.txt: improve...", not "githooks.txt: Improve...". But "refs: HEAD is also |