It makes parsing them more difficult. Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> --- Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst index 1755c8a6691a..5a314cc60aa7 100644 --- a/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst @@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ The description ends with a series of tags, written one to a line as the last paragraph of the email. Each tag indicates some property of the patch in an easily machine-parseable manner. +Please don't wrap a tag across multiple lines. If necessary, it's OK to have a +tag extend beyond the customary maximum width of a commit message. + Examples of common tags follow. ``Signed-off-by: Author Name <[email protected]...>`` -- 2.16.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
