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[73.41.93.56]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ot3sm24004231pbb.4.2015.06.23.11.36.00 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:36:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Roy Franz To: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, lersek@redhat.com, michael.d.kinney@intel.com Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:35:51 -0700 Message-Id: <1435084551-32654-1-git-send-email-roy.franz@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.4 X-Spam-Score: -1.5 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record X-Headers-End: 1Z7T3H-00069W-Vi Subject: [edk2] [PATCH] MdePkg: Describe submission of a patch authored by someone else X-BeenThere: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: edk2-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net X-Removed-Original-Auth: Dkim didn't pass. X-Original-Sender: roy.franz@linaro.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of patch+caf_=patchwork-forward=linaro.org@linaro.org designates 209.85.215.54 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=patch+caf_=patchwork-forward=linaro.org@linaro.org Mailing-list: list patchwork-forward@linaro.org; contact patchwork-forward+owners@linaro.org X-Google-Group-Id: 836684582541 Add a description of how to describe the authorship of a patch that is submitted by someone other than the original author. Add mention of git format-patch --stat=120 option for generating more useful patch names in diffstat. Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0 Signed-off-by: Roy Franz --- MdePkg/Contributions.txt | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/MdePkg/Contributions.txt b/MdePkg/Contributions.txt index f87cbd7..98de958 100644 --- a/MdePkg/Contributions.txt +++ b/MdePkg/Contributions.txt @@ -67,7 +67,16 @@ Patch content inline or attached * The first line of commit message is taken from the email's subject line following [PATCH]. The remaining portion of the commit message is the email's content until the '---' line. -* git format-patch is one way to create this format +* git format-patch is one way to create this format. In order to get + useful path names in the diffstat, the "--stat=120" option should + be used. +* If a patch is being submitted by someone other than the orginal + author, then the orginal author's Signed-off-by/Contributed-under lines + should be first, followed by the Signed-off-by/Contributed-under lines + of the patch submitter. Any changes made by the submitter should be + noted above the submitter's Signed-off-by line. If git is being used + to prepare the patches, the git author of the commit corresponding to + the patch should be owned by the original author (git commit --author). === Definitions for sample patch email ===