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Re: [Patch] Error message grammar

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Mar 6, 2011, 17:38 UTC
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A.J.Delaney@brighton.ac.uk writes:
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> Matthieu,
> On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 23:03 +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>> Please, read
>> http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git/blob_plain?f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches
>> in particular the Signed-off-by part and the "don't attach patches"
>> one.
> Thanks for the pointer.

Now, you should read the part about what goes before and after the --- in the message ;-).

The body of the email (before ---) will become the commit message, you want it clean and self-contained. Discussions should go after the ---. If you don't follow this, our maintainer will have to fix it manually...

> Based on master f70f736bcbb22cfe434eaf20089d9713b991ee31
This is not needed, and if you add it, put it after ---.
> I certify conformance to Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aidan Delaney <a.j.delaney@brighton.ac.uk>
Just the Signed-off-by is sufficient.
-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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