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[PATCH] Update to SubmittingPatches

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jun 3, 2007, 00:46 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0706030145420.4046@racer.site>
In-Reply-To
<7v8xb2qj37.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Make people aware of our testsuite, and of non-ASCII encodings.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
	On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
	> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
	> 
	> > Kristian Høgsberg <hoegsberg@gmail.com> writes:
	> >
	> >> Encode ' ' using '=20' even though rfc2047 allows using '_' for
	> >> readability..
	> >
	> > Thanks.
	> >
	> > Your message was marked as iso-8859-1 even though it was utf-8
	> > (your signed-off-by line), so I'll fix it up with your From:
	> > header.
	> 
	> Oh, another thing.  Before you submit a patch, make sure the
	> whole testsuite in t/ passes by running "make test".
	We should remind people of both.
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index b5f2ecd..b6e5847 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ Checklist (and a short version for the impatient):
 	  commit message (or just use the option "-s" when
 	  committing) to confirm that you agree to the Developer's
 	  Certificate of Origin
+	- make sure that you have tests for the bug you are fixing
+	- make sure that the test suit passes after your commit
 
 	Patch:
 
@@ -33,6 +35,8 @@ Checklist (and a short version for the impatient):
 	- if you change, add, or remove a command line option or
 	  make some other user interface change, the associated
 	  documentation should be updated as well.
+	- if your name is not writable in ASCII, make sure that 
+	  you send off a message in the correct encoding.
 
 Long version:
 
-- 
1.5.2.2663.gd77e7-dirty
Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 5 of 5 in “Use =20 when rfc2047 encoding spaces.”
  1. Use =20 when rfc2047 encoding spaces.Kristian Høgsberg, Jun 1, 2007
  2. Jeffrey C. OllieJun 1, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 2, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 2, 2007
  5. Update to SubmittingPatchesJohannes Schindelin, Jun 3, 2007

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