From: "Grégoire PARIS" <postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
While the PR is a simple one line change to the documention, the patch should be submitted to the list.> You could, for example, have your template directory itself be a git repository. I can and I do and indeed, that might be the reason behind this. I made a PR to document this : https://github.com/git/git/pull/325
See Documenation/SubmittingPatchesDon't forget to Sign Off your patch (see the Developer's Certificate of Origin section).
--Philip