From: Josh Soref <jsoref@xxxxxxxxx>
Current statistics show a strong preference to only capitalize the first
letter in a hyphenated tag, but that some guidance would be helpful:
git log |
perl -ne 'next unless /^\s+(?:Signed-[oO]ff|Acked)-[bB]y:/;
s/^\s+//;s/:.*/:/;print'|
sort|uniq -c|sort -n
2 Signed-off-By:
4 Signed-Off-by:
22 Acked-By:
47 Signed-Off-By:
2202 Acked-by:
95315 Signed-off-by:
Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 694a7bafb68..d7a84f59478 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -369,6 +369,9 @@ If you like, you can put extra tags at the end:
You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage
such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Improved-by:".
+Extra tags should only capitalize the very first letter, i.e. favor
+"Signed-off-by" over "Signed-Off-By" and "Acked-by:" over "Acked-By".
+
[[git-tools]]
=== Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits.
--
gitgitgadget
