{"thread":{"id":"58583","subject":"[PATCH] SubmittingPatches: use usual capitalization in the log message body","startedAt":"2022-10-07T18:09:44Z","lastAt":"2022-10-07T21:55:11Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Junio C Hamano","Taylor Blau"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"464390","messageId":"xmqqedvjfqx1.fsf@gitster.g","threadId":"58583","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH] SubmittingPatches: use usual capitalization in the log message body","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2022-10-07T18:07:54Z","receivedAt":"2022-10-07T18:09:44Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Update the description of the summary section to clarify that the\n\"do not capitalize\" rule applies only the word after the \"<area>:\"\nprefix of the title and nowhere else.  This hopefully will prevent\nfolks from writing their proposed log message in all lowercase.\n\nSigned-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>\n---\n Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 4 +++-\n 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)\n\ndiff --git c/Documentation/SubmittingPatches w/Documentation/SubmittingPatches\nindex 5bd795e5db..927f7329a5 100644\n--- c/Documentation/SubmittingPatches\n+++ w/Documentation/SubmittingPatches\n@@ -153,7 +153,9 @@ files you are modifying to see the current conventions.\n \n [[summary-section]]\n The title sentence after the \"area:\" prefix omits the full stop at the\n-end, and its first word is not capitalized unless there is a reason to\n+end, and its first word is not capitalized (the omission\n+of capitalization applies only to the word after the \"area:\"\n+prefix of the title) unless there is a reason to\n capitalize it other than because it is the first word in the sentence.\n E.g. \"doc: clarify...\", not \"doc: Clarify...\", or \"githooks.txt:\n improve...\", not \"githooks.txt: Improve...\".  But \"refs: HEAD is also\n"},{"id":"464402","messageId":"Y0CgNr8UF8kPkn4E@nand.local","threadId":"58583","inReplyTo":"xmqqedvjfqx1.fsf@gitster.g","subject":"Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: use usual capitalization in the log message body","fromName":"Taylor Blau","fromEmail":"me@ttaylorr.com","sentAt":"2022-10-07T21:55:02Z","receivedAt":"2022-10-07T21:55:11Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"me@ttaylorr.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/301000140?v=4"},"body":"On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 11:07:54AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> ---\n>  Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 4 +++-\n>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)\n\nThanks, looks good to me. Hopefully readers of SubmittingPatches will\ntake note ;-).\n\nThanks,\nTaylor\n"}]}