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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2022-10-07 11:07:54 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2022-10-07 14:59:25 -0700
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SubmittingPatches: use usual capitalization in the log message body
Update the description of the summary section to clarify that the "do not capitalize" rule applies only the word after the "<area>:" prefix of the title and nowhere else. This hopefully will prevent folks from writing their proposed log message in all lowercase. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -153,7 +153,9 @@ files you are modifying to see the current conventions.
[[summary-section]]
The title sentence after the "area:" prefix omits the full stop at the
-end, and its first word is not capitalized unless there is a reason to
+end, and its first word is not capitalized (the omission
+of capitalization applies only to the word after the "area:"
+prefix of the title) unless there is a reason to
capitalize it other than because it is the first word in the sentence.
E.g. "doc: clarify...", not "doc: Clarify...", or "githooks.txt:
improve...", not "githooks.txt: Improve...". But "refs: HEAD is also