From: Josh Soref via GitGitGadget Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 08:41:56 GMT Subject: [PATCH 5/8] SubmittingPatches: improve extra tags advice Message-ID: <11688e4360c1698e56b3485e3df4e171397d3c3c.1702975320.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: From: Josh Soref 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 --- 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. -- gitgitgadget