Re: [PATCH] Documentation: mention the amlog in howto/maintain-git.txt

> The "policy" part of the change may read like the following.
>
> Thanks.
>
>  Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git c/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt w/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
> index da31332f11..9b72d435e6 100644
> --- c/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
> +++ w/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
> @@ -35,6 +35,14 @@ The maintainer's Git time is spent on three activities.
>  The Policy
>  ----------
>
> +Because most of the lines of code in Git are written by individual
> +contributors, and contributions come in the form of e-mailed patches
> +published on the mailing list, the project maintains a mapping from
> +individual commits to the Message-Id of the e-mail that resulted in
> +the commit, to help tracking the origin of the changes.  The notes
> +in "refs/notes/amlog" are used for this purpose, and are published
> +along with the broken-out branches to the maintainer's repository.
> +
>  The policy on Integration is informally mentioned in "A Note
>  from the maintainer" message, which is periodically posted to
>  the mailing list after each feature release is made: