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authorng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>2016-07-21 18:05:30 +0000
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2016-07-28 15:38:14 +0200
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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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@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