diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'eng/vc-users.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | eng/vc-users.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/eng/vc-users.rst b/eng/vc-users.rst index 31de516..64c2624 100644 --- a/eng/vc-users.rst +++ b/eng/vc-users.rst @@ -458,6 +458,14 @@ specify a version number for your patch, for example, use to indicate the second version of a patch, ``-v3`` for a third, and so forth. +Also, in order to create a patch specifying the repo name in the patch message, +you should use the``--subject-prefix`` flag. For example, if contributing to +the rtems-docs repo, use + +.. code-block:: shell + + git format-patch --subject-prefix="PATCH rtems-docs" ... + Patches created using ``git format-patch`` are formatted so they can be emailed and rely on having Git configured with your name and email address, for example |