Commit 3b443955 authored by Matthew Wilcox's avatar Matthew Wilcox Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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Docs: tell maintainers to put [GIT PULL] in their subject lines 



It seems that Linus looks for [GIT PULL] in subject lines to ensure that
pull requests don't get buried in the noise during merge windows.  Update
the docs to reflect that.

[jc: From an impromptu post from willy, thus no SOB]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 6d909486

Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst

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@@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ requests, especially from new, unknown developers. If in doubt you can use 
the pull request as the cover letter for a normal posting of the patch

series, giving the maintainer the option of using either.



A pull request should have [GIT] or [PULL] in the subject line.  The

A pull request should have [GIT PULL] in the subject line.  The

request itself should include the repository name and the branch of

interest on a single line; it should look something like::