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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-11-30 20:47:38 -0800
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<div class="paragraph"><p>After a few days, you will hopefully receive a reply to your patchset with some
comments. Woohoo! Now you can get back to work.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>It&#8217;s good manners to reply to each comment, notifying the reviewer that you have
-made the change requested, feel the original is better, or that the comment
+made the change suggested, feel the original is better, or that the comment
inspired you to do something a new way which is superior to both the original
and the suggested change. This way reviewers don&#8217;t need to inspect your v2 to
figure out whether you implemented their comment or not.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Reviewers may ask you about what you wrote in the patchset, either in
+the proposed commit log message or in the changes themselves. You
+should answer these questions in your response messages, but often the
+reason why reviewers asked these questions to understand what you meant
+to write is because your patchset needed clarification to be understood.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Do not be satisfied by just answering their questions in your response
+and hear them say that they now understand what you wanted to say.
+Update your patches to clarify the points reviewers had trouble with,
+and prepare your v2; the words you used to explain your v1 to answer
+reviewers' questions may be useful thing to use. Your goal is to make
+your v2 clear enough so that it becomes unnecessary for you to give the
+same explanation to the next person who reads it.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If you are going to push back on a comment, be polite and explain why you feel
your original is better; be prepared that the reviewer may still disagree with
you, and the rest of the community may weigh in on one side or the other. As
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