Hi Michael, On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 10:41 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yeah "one line summary" is referring to the subject of the commit. > > So it doesn't explicitly say not to split it across lines, it probably > should. > > eg: ? > > diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst > index 30dc00a364e8..12a283ba3929 100644 > --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst > +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst > @@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ If your patch fixes a bug in a specific commit, e.g. you found an issue using > > Fixes: e21d2170f366 ("video: remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata()") > > +To ease parsing of the 'Fixes:' tag please don't split it across multiple lines. > + > The following ``git config`` settings can be used to add a pretty format for > outputting the above style in the ``git log`` or ``git show`` commands:: Yes, I think this make it clearer. Thanks