From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 22:35:22 +0000 (-0800) Subject: SubmittingPatches: who am I and who cares? X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=adcc42e68d0f5e18f2e81249b797a5b5457366d4;p=git.git 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 --- diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index c34c9d12c..b9fd18253 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -60,14 +60,8 @@ Checklist (and a short version for the impatient): Long version: -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. - -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. (0) Decide what to base your work on.