The examples and common practice for adding markers such as "RFC" or "v2" to the subject of patch emails is to have them within the same brackets as the "PATCH" text. Update the description to match this behaviour, rather than asserting such markers should be after the closing bracket. Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 558d465b6..e91ce8269 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ lose tabs that way if you are not careful. It is a common convention to prefix your subject line with [PATCH]. This lets people easily distinguish patches from other -e-mail discussions. Use of additional markers after PATCH and +e-mail discussions. Use of additional markers between PATCH and the closing bracket to mark the nature of the patch is also encouraged. E.g. [PATCH/RFC] is often used when the patch is not ready to be applied but it is for discussion, [PATCH v2], -- 2.14.3
