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SubmittingPatches: use usual capitalization in the log message body
Update the description of the summary section to clarify that the "do not capitalize" rule applies only the word after the "<area>:" prefix of the title and nowhere else. This hopefully will prevent folks from writing their proposed log message in all lowercase. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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@@ -153,7 +153,9 @@ files you are modifying to see the current conventions.
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[[summary-section]]
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The title sentence after the "area:" prefix omits the full stop at the
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end, and its first word is not capitalized unless there is a reason to
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end, and its first word is not capitalized (the omission
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of capitalization applies only to the word after the "area:"
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prefix of the title) unless there is a reason to
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capitalize it other than because it is the first word in the sentence.
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E.g. "doc: clarify...", not "doc: Clarify...", or "githooks.txt:
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improve...", not "githooks.txt: Improve...". But "refs: HEAD is also

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