Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@xxxxxxx> writes:
> There is already a paragraph about this in
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches just a few paragraphs below.
>
>> Send your patch with "To:" set to the mailing list, with "cc:" listing
>> people who are involved in the area you are touching (the `git
>> contacts` command in `contrib/contacts/` can help to
>> identify them), to solicit comments and reviews. Also, when you made
>> trial merges of your topic to `next` and `seen`, you may have noticed
>> work by others conflicting with your changes. There is a good possibility
>> that these people may know the area you are touching well.
>
> Could we improve the existing paragraph instead of duplicating this
> information?
Absolutely. I am glad that you were paying attention to the
question that triggered this patch ;-)
We may want to add to coding guidelines to try avoiding to word wrap
a line in the middle of a multi-word phrase. If such a rule were
followed,
$ git grep git.contacts Documentation
would easily had found the existing passage.
Thanks.
