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diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst index 30dc00a364e8..be7d1829c3af 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst @@ -182,9 +182,11 @@ change five years from now. If your patch fixes a bug in a specific commit, e.g. you found an issue using ``git bisect``, please use the 'Fixes:' tag with the first 12 characters of -the SHA-1 ID, and the one line summary. For example:: +the SHA-1 ID, and the one line summary. Do not split the tag across multiple +lines, tags are exempt from the "wrap at 75 columns" rule in order to simplify +parsing scripts. For example:: - Fixes: e21d2170f366 ("video: remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata()") + Fixes: 54a4f0239f2e ("KVM: MMU: make kvm_mmu_zap_page() return the number of pages it actually freed") The following ``git config`` settings can be used to add a pretty format for outputting the above style in the ``git log`` or ``git show`` commands:: |