On 10/31/2018 11:06 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
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]...>``
+1
Reviewed-by: Greg Rose <[email protected]>
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