I fell into various newbie pitfalls when submitting my first patches to git, despite my best attempts to adhere to documented guidelines. This small patch series attempts to reduce the chances of other developers making the same mistakes I did. Adam Spiers (3): SubmittingPatches: add convention of prefixing commit messages Documentation: move support for old compilers to CodingGuidelines Makefile: use -Wdeclaration-after-statement if supported Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 8 ++++++++ Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 21 ++++++++------------- Makefile | 7 ++++++- 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) -- 1.7.12.1.396.g53b3ea9 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html