SubmittingPatches: who am I and who cares?
The introductory text in the "long version" talks about the origin of this document with "I started ...", but it is unclear who that I is, and more importantly, it is not interesting how it was started. Just state the purpose of the document to help readers decide if it is releavant to them. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Long version:
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-I started reading over the SubmittingPatches document for Linux
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-kernel, primarily because I wanted to have a document similar to
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-it for the core GIT to make sure people understand what they are
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-doing when they write "Signed-off-by" line.
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-But the patch submission requirements are a lot more relaxed
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-here on the technical/contents front, because the core GIT is
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-thousand times smaller ;-). So here is only the relevant bits.
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+Here are some guidelines for people who want to contribute their code
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+to this software.
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(0) Decide what to base your work on.
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