SubmittingPatches: who am I and who cares?
The introductory text in the "long version" talks about the origin of this document with "I started ...", but it is unclear who that I is, and more importantly, it is not interesting how it was started. Just state the purpose of the document to help readers decide if it is releavant to them. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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| I started reading over the SubmittingPatches document for Linux | ||||
| kernel, primarily because I wanted to have a document similar to | ||||
| it for the core GIT to make sure people understand what they are | ||||
| doing when they write "Signed-off-by" line. | ||||
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| But the patch submission requirements are a lot more relaxed | ||||
| here on the technical/contents front, because the core GIT is | ||||
| thousand times smaller ;-).  So here is only the relevant bits. | ||||
| Here are some guidelines for people who want to contribute their code | ||||
| to this software. | ||||
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| (0) Decide what to base your work on. | ||||
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