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SubmittingPatches: discourage new trailers
There seems to be consensus amongst the core Git community on a working set of common trailers, and there are non-trivial costs to people inventing new trailers (research to discover what they mean/how they differ from existing trailers) such that inventing new ones is generally unwarranted and not something to be recommended to new contributors. Suggested-by: Elijah Newren <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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. `Tested-by:` is used to indicate that the person applied the patch
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and found it to have the desired effect.
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You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage
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such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:".
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While you can also create your own trailer if the situation warrants it, we
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encourage you to instead use one of the common trailers in this project
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highlighted above.
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[[git-tools]]
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=== Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits.

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