From 74a475acea49459721ae4b062d3da68c74259009 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Triplett Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 14:48:28 -0700 Subject: SubmittingPatches: add style recommendation to use imperative descriptions Most commit messages use this style, and the recommendation frequently comes up in discussions (especially in response to patches that don't use it), but that recommendation doesn't actually appear anywhere in Documentation. Add this style guideline to SubmittingPatches, using the description from git's SubmittingPatches. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Rob Landley Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/SubmittingPatches') diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 26b1e31d5a1..c74e73c37dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ I.e., the patch (series) and its description should be self-contained. This benefits both the patch merger(s) and reviewers. Some reviewers probably didn't even receive earlier versions of the patch. +Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz" +instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed xyzzy +to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change +its behaviour. + If the patch fixes a logged bug entry, refer to that bug entry by number and URL. -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2