Change 'submiting' to 'submitting', 'famliar' to 'familiar' and 'appared' to 'appeared'. Signed-off-by: Aryabhatta Dey <aryabhattadey35@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/process/backporting.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/backporting.rst b/Documentation/process/backporting.rst index e1a6ea0a1e8a..a71480fcf3b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/backporting.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/backporting.rst @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Once you have the patch in git, you can go ahead and cherry-pick it into your source tree. Don't forget to cherry-pick with ``-x`` if you want a written record of where the patch came from! -Note that if you are submiting a patch for stable, the format is +Note that if you are submitting a patch for stable, the format is slightly different; the first line after the subject line needs tobe either:: @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ divergence. It's important to always identify the commit or commits that caused the conflict, as otherwise you cannot be confident in the correctness of your resolution. As an added bonus, especially if the patch is in an -area you're not that famliar with, the changelogs of these commits will +area you're not that familiar with, the changelogs of these commits will often give you the context to understand the code and potential problems or pitfalls with your conflict resolution. @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ git blame Another way to find prerequisite commits (albeit only the most recent one for a given conflict) is to run ``git blame``. In this case, you need to run it against the parent commit of the patch you are -cherry-picking and the file where the conflict appared, i.e.:: +cherry-picking and the file where the conflict appeared, i.e.:: git blame <commit>^ -- <path> -- 2.46.0