From: Josh Soref Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 04:55:21 +0000 (+0000) Subject: SubmittingPatches: provide tag naming advice X-Git-Tag: v2.43.1~7^2~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=08e2e6f8d27539b7573c9ce3b5e4958b93876229;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git SubmittingPatches: provide tag naming advice Current statistics show a strong preference to only capitalize the first letter in a hyphenated tag, but that some guidance would be helpful: git log | perl -ne 'next unless /^\s+(?:Signed-[oO]ff|Acked)-[bB]y:/; s/^\s+//;s/:.*/:/;print'| sort|uniq -c|sort -n 2 Signed-off-By: 4 Signed-Off-by: 22 Acked-By: 47 Signed-Off-By: 2202 Acked-by: 95315 Signed-off-by: Signed-off-by: Josh Soref Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 31878cb70b..94c874ab5e 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -368,6 +368,9 @@ While you can also create your own trailer if the situation warrants it, we encourage you to instead use one of the common trailers in this project highlighted above. +Only capitalize the very first letter of tags, i.e. favor +"Signed-off-by" over "Signed-Off-By" and "Acked-by:" over "Acked-By". + [[git-tools]] === Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits.