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Commit d19b3e32 authored by Junio C Hamano's avatar Junio C Hamano Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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Documentation/process: fix the canonical patch format description 



There shouldn't be a blank line at the beginning, if there is no
optional in-body "From" line.  There must be a blank line between
the body of the explanation and the beginning of the S-o-b lines.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent ac0a314c

Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst

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@@ -621,14 +621,14 @@ The canonical patch subject line is:: 


The canonical patch message body contains the following:



  - A ``from`` line specifying the patch author (only needed if the person

    sending the patch is not the author).



  - An empty line.

  - A ``from`` line specifying the patch author, followed by an empty

    line (only needed if the person sending the patch is not the author).



  - The body of the explanation, line wrapped at 75 columns, which will

    be copied to the permanent changelog to describe this patch.



  - An empty line.



  - The ``Signed-off-by:`` lines, described above, which will

    also go in the changelog.