From patchwork Wed Oct 31 18:06:50 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Ben Pfaff X-Patchwork-Id: 991632 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; spf=pass (mailfrom) smtp.mailfrom=openvswitch.org (client-ip=140.211.169.12; helo=mail.linuxfoundation.org; envelope-from=ovs-dev-bounces@openvswitch.org; receiver=) Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=ovn.org Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org (mail.linuxfoundation.org [140.211.169.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 42lbrj0mfbz9s0t for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2018 05:07:01 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from mail.linux-foundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D681F08; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:06:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: dev@openvswitch.org Delivered-To: ovs-dev@mail.linuxfoundation.org Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F72519A4 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:06:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from relay12.mail.gandi.net (relay12.mail.gandi.net [217.70.178.232]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7D084E6 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sigabrt.attlocal.net (75-54-222-30.lightspeed.rdcyca.sbcglobal.net [75.54.222.30]) (Authenticated sender: blp@ovn.org) by relay12.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A7682200005; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:06:53 +0000 (UTC) From: Ben Pfaff To: dev@openvswitch.org Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:06:50 -0700 Message-Id: <20181031180650.25329-1-blp@ovn.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.16.1 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org Cc: Ben Pfaff Subject: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] submitting-patches: Advise not to wrap tags across multiple lines. X-BeenThere: ovs-dev@openvswitch.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: ovs-dev-bounces@openvswitch.org Errors-To: ovs-dev-bounces@openvswitch.org It makes parsing them more difficult. Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff Reviewed-by: Greg Rose Acked-by: Flavio Leitner --- Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst index 1755c8a6691a..5a314cc60aa7 100644 --- a/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst @@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ The description ends with a series of tags, written one to a line as the last paragraph of the email. Each tag indicates some property of the patch in an easily machine-parseable manner. +Please don't wrap a tag across multiple lines. If necessary, it's OK to have a +tag extend beyond the customary maximum width of a commit message. + Examples of common tags follow. ``Signed-off-by: Author Name ``