# [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: use usual capitalization in the log message body 2 messages from 2022-10-07 to 2022-10-07. Participants: Junio C Hamano, Taylor Blau. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/58583 ## Junio C Hamano, 2022-10-07 18:07 Subject: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: use usual capitalization in the log message body Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqedvjfqx1.fsf%40gitster.g ``` Update the description of the summary section to clarify that the "do not capitalize" rule applies only the word after the ":" prefix of the title and nowhere else. This hopefully will prevent folks from writing their proposed log message in all lowercase. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git c/Documentation/SubmittingPatches w/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 5bd795e5db..927f7329a5 100644 --- c/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ w/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -153,7 +153,9 @@ files you are modifying to see the current conventions. [[summary-section]] The title sentence after the "area:" prefix omits the full stop at the -end, and its first word is not capitalized unless there is a reason to +end, and its first word is not capitalized (the omission +of capitalization applies only to the word after the "area:" +prefix of the title) unless there is a reason to capitalize it other than because it is the first word in the sentence. E.g. "doc: clarify...", not "doc: Clarify...", or "githooks.txt: improve...", not "githooks.txt: Improve...". But "refs: HEAD is also ``` ## Taylor Blau, 2022-10-07 21:55 Subject: Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: use usual capitalization in the log message body Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Y0CgNr8UF8kPkn4E%40nand.local In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 11:07:54AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > --- > Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Thanks, looks good to me. Hopefully readers of SubmittingPatches will take note ;-). Thanks, Taylor ```