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02/05: doc: Send changes in your patch which are related.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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02/05: doc: Send changes in your patch which are related. |
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Thu, 28 Jul 2016 13:47:10 +0000 (UTC) |
civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.
commit 3a78fab83dd5faa80d8eecd792f40dde6e334c7c
Author: ng0 <address@hidden>
Date: Thu Jul 21 18:05:30 2016 +0000
doc: Send changes in your patch which are related.
* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): New @item:
This gives information about sending related changes and examples on
what we view as related changes.
Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
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doc/contributing.texi | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index 6496e10..a3684a5 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -340,6 +340,13 @@ referring to people, such as
@uref{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they, singular
``they''@comma{} ``their''@comma{} ``them''}, and so forth.
address@hidden
+Verify that your patch contains only one set of related changes.
+Bundling unrelated changes together makes reviewing harder and slower.
+
+Examples of unrelated changes include the addition of several packages,
+or a package update along with fixes to that package.
+
@end enumerate
When posting a patch to the mailing list, use @samp{[PATCH] @dots{}} as