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doc: clarify practices for submitting updated patch versions
The `SubmittingPatches` documentation briefly mentions that related patches should be grouped together in their own e-mail thread. Expand on this to explicitly state that updated versions of a patch series should also follow this. Also provide add a link to existing documentation from `MyFirstContribution` that provides detailed instructions on how to do this via `git-send-email(1)`. Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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your code. For this reason, each patch should be submitted
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"inline" in a separate message.
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Multiple related patches should be grouped into their own e-mail
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thread to help readers find all parts of the series. To that end,
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send them as replies to either an additional "cover letter" message
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(see below), the first patch, or the respective preceding patch.
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All subsequent versions of a patch series and other related patches should be
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grouped into their own e-mail thread to help readers find all parts of the
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series. To that end, send them as replies to either an additional "cover
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letter" message (see below), the first patch, or the respective preceding patch.
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Here is a link:MyFirstContribution.html#v2-git-send-email[step-by-step guide] on
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how to submit updated versions of a patch series.
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If your log message (including your name on the
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`Signed-off-by` trailer) is not writable in ASCII, make sure that

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