Update the description of the summary section to clarify that the "do not capitalize" rule applies only the word after the "<area>:" prefix of the title and nowhere else. This hopefully will prevent folks from writing their proposed log message in all lowercase. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git c/Documentation/SubmittingPatches w/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 5bd795e5db..927f7329a5 100644 --- c/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ w/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -153,7 +153,9 @@ files you are modifying to see the current conventions. [[summary-section]] The title sentence after the "area:" prefix omits the full stop at the -end, and its first word is not capitalized unless there is a reason to +end, and its first word is not capitalized (the omission +of capitalization applies only to the word after the "area:" +prefix of the title) unless there is a reason to capitalize it other than because it is the first word in the sentence. E.g. "doc: clarify...", not "doc: Clarify...", or "githooks.txt: improve...", not "githooks.txt: Improve...". But "refs: HEAD is also
