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docs: patch changelogs when submitting patches

This adds a section on creating patch changelogs when submitting
patches. It helps reviewers know what changed between many different
versions of a patch
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William Casarin 2023-07-16 09:44:27 -07:00
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@ -125,6 +125,24 @@ you introduce bugs in the middle.
If you cannot condense your patch set into a smaller set of patches,
then only post say 15 or so at a time and wait for review and integration.
Include `patch changelogs` which describe what has changed between the v1 and
v2 version of the patch. Please put this information **after** the `---` line
which separates the changelog from the rest of the patch. The version
information is not part of the changelog which gets committed to the git tree.
It is additional information for the reviewers. If it's placed above the commit
tags, it needs manual interaction to remove it. If it is below the separator
line, it gets automatically stripped off when applying the patch::
<commit message>
...
Signed-off-by: Author <author@mail>
---
V2 -> V3: Removed redundant helper function
V1 -> V2: Cleaned up coding style and addressed review comments
path/to/file | 5+++--
...
### Select the recipients for your patch