From a40ebe73a1e0e3a4b7b5be464f1bd7952bd1c394 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emil Velikov Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:23:41 +0000 Subject: docs/submittingpatches.html: document the Fixes tag MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Provide information and an example. Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov Reviewed-by: Nicolai Hähnle --- docs/submittingpatches.html | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/submittingpatches.html b/docs/submittingpatches.html index 564ad731b24..6ca39c48259 100644 --- a/docs/submittingpatches.html +++ b/docs/submittingpatches.html @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ patch comment. For example:
    Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89689
 
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  • If a patch addresses a issue introduced with earlier commit, that should be +noted in the patch comment. For example: +
    +   Fixes: d7b3707c612 "util/disk_cache: use stat() to check if entry is a directory"
    +
  • If there have been several revisions to a patch during the review process, they should be noted such as in this example:
    -- 
    cgit v1.2.3