Make it clear that patches for *all* Xorg repos, including xserver, should include the repo name in the [PATCH ...] prefix.
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> --- Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches.mdwn | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches.mdwn b/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches.mdwn index 2459ee9..94cd421 100644 --- a/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches.mdwn +++ b/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches.mdwn @@ -100,18 +100,19 @@ The subject line of the example patch: """]] The git format-patch command has prefixed the commit _subject line_ with the word [PATCH] on your behalf. If you haven't signed-off in the commit message body, you can do so with the --signoff option. -If you are submitting a patch for applications, drivers or libraries to xorg-devel list, you should add the component name next to the PATCH word using the --subject-prefix option. +The reviewers need to know for which component this patch is for when reading the e-mail or filtering in patchwork, as there are over 200 of them. You can configure the git format-patch and git send-email commands to always do it for you: -Examples: [[!format txt """ -[PATCH evdev] fix crash on VT switch #12345 -[PATCH libXi] convert to ANSI +$> git config format.subjectprefix "PATCH evdev" """]] -The reviewers need to know for which component this patch is for when reading the e-mail (there are over 200 of them). You can configure the git format-patch command to always do it for you: +Or you can add the component name next to the PATCH word using the --subject-prefix option to git format-patch and git send-email. +Examples: [[!format txt """ -$> git config format.subjectprefix "PATCH evdev" +[PATCH evdev] fix crash on VT switch #12345 +[PATCH libXi] convert to ANSI +[PATCH xserver] randr: add support for holographic projector outputs """]] ## Extra info -- 1.7.9.2 _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
