Hi Michael,

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 10:41 AM Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah "one line summary" is referring to the subject of the commit.
>
> So it doesn't explicitly say not to split it across lines, it probably
> should.
>
> eg: ?
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst 
> b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> index 30dc00a364e8..12a283ba3929 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> @@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ If your patch fixes a bug in a specific commit, e.g. you 
> found an issue using
>
>         Fixes: e21d2170f366 ("video: remove unnecessary 
> platform_set_drvdata()")
>
> +To ease parsing of the 'Fixes:' tag please don't split it across multiple 
> lines.
> +
>  The following ``git config`` settings can be used to add a pretty format for
>  outputting the above style in the ``git log`` or ``git show`` commands::

Yes, I think this make it clearer. Thanks

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