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authorFrank Ch. Eigler <fche@elastic.org>2008-04-30 13:14:22 -0400
committerFrank Ch. Eigler <fche@elastic.org>2008-04-30 13:14:22 -0400
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add git commit summary guidelines
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@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ the <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> mailing list.
Some subdirectories have ChangeLog files of their own, so make sure
you find the correct ones to prepend.
+ In the git commit message, make the first line an brief summary of
+ the patch. There is no need to transcribe the ChangeLog entries there.
+
- test suites
As far as practicable, changes should be accompanied by test cases