SubmittingPatches: provide tag naming advice
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 <jsoref@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -368,6 +368,9 @@ While you can also create your own trailer if the situation warrants it, we
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encourage you to instead use one of the common trailers in this project
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highlighted above.
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+Only capitalize the very first letter of tags, i.e. favor
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+"Signed-off-by" over "Signed-Off-By" and "Acked-by:" over "Acked-By".
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[[git-tools]]
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=== Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits.
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