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| author | ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is> | 2016-07-21 18:05:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2016-07-28 15:38:14 +0200 |
| commit | 3a78fab83dd5faa80d8eecd792f40dde6e334c7c (patch) | |
| tree | 9480e213051ee9c0692f5b0bd2a470988cfcdd98 /doc/contributing.texi | |
| parent | 189b1543cbc2db50e6dd309e84bce4eb503f0493 (diff) | |
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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 <ludo@gnu.org>
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diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index 6496e10a14..a3684a5e1d 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. +@item +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 |