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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 |