git-svn: remove svnadmin dependency from the tests

[git.git] / Documentation / SubmittingPatches

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 318b04fdeb2f3b77004cee830cd43c43ef55e1d3..646b6e73318e04cfff7b20abd5d06be424bce503 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ People on the git mailing list need to be able to read and
 comment on the changes you are submitting.  It is important for
 a developer to be able to "quote" your changes, using standard
 e-mail tools, so that they may comment on specific portions of
-your code.  For this reason, all patches should be submited
+your code.  For this reason, all patches should be submitted
 "inline".  WARNING: Be wary of your MUAs word-wrap
 corrupting your patch.  Do not cut-n-paste your patch; you can
 lose tabs that way if you are not careful.
@@ -101,8 +101,13 @@ send it "To:" the mailing list, and optionally "cc:" him.  If it
 is trivially correct or after the list reached a consensus, send
 it "To:" the maintainer and optionally "cc:" the list.
 
+Also note that your maintainer does not actively involve himself in
+maintaining what are in contrib/ hierarchy.  When you send fixes and
+enhancements to them, do not forget to "cc: " the person who primarily
+worked on that hierarchy in contrib/.
 
-(6) Sign your work
+
+(4) Sign your work
 
 To improve tracking of who did what, we've borrowed the
 "sign-off" procedure from the Linux kernel project on patches
@@ -144,6 +149,9 @@ then you just add a line saying
 
        Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>
 
+This line can be automatically added by git if you run the git-commit
+command with the -s option.
+
 Some people also put extra tags at the end.  They'll just be ignored for
 now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just
 point out some special detail about the sign-off.
@@ -266,8 +274,8 @@ This recipe appears to work with the current [*1*] Thunderbird from Suse.
 The following Thunderbird extensions are needed:
        AboutConfig 0.5
                http://aboutconfig.mozdev.org/
-       External Editor 0.5.4
-               http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/exteditor
+       External Editor 0.7.2
+               http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=8
 
 1) Prepare the patch as a text file using your method of choice.