[PATCH 5/8] SubmittingPatches: improve extra tags advice

From: Josh Soref via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 19, 2023, 08:41 UTC
Message-ID: <11688e4360c1698e56b3485e3df4e171397d3c3c.1702975320.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1623.git.1702975319.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>

Current statistics show a strong preference to only capitalize the first letter in a hyphenated tag, but that some guidance would be helpful:

git log |
  perl -ne 'next unless /^\s+(?:Signed-[oO]ff|Acked)-[bB]y:/;
    s/^\s+//;s/:.*/:/;print'|
  sort|uniq -c|sort -n
   2 Signed-off-By:
   4 Signed-Off-by:
  22 Acked-By:
  47 Signed-Off-By:
2202 Acked-by:
95315 Signed-off-by:

Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 694a7bafb68..d7a84f59478 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -369,6 +369,9 @@ If you like, you can put extra tags at the end:
 You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage
 such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Improved-by:".
 
+Extra tags should only capitalize the very first letter, i.e. favor
+"Signed-off-by" over "Signed-Off-By" and "Acked-by:" over "Acked-By".
+
 [[git-tools]]
 === Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits.

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