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@@ -232,6 +232,17 @@ Try to make the summary line fit one of the following forms: build: change-description maint: change-description +If your commit fixes a bug, try to find the commit that introduced that +bug. If you do that, add a note in your new commit log saying something +like "Introduced by commit v8.12-103-g54cbe6e." and add something like +[bug introduced in coreutils-8.13] in the corresponding NEWS blurb. +Assuming you found the bug in commit 54cbe6e6, "git describe 54cbe6e6" +will print the longer tag-relative string that you'll need. +Note that we used to use an 8-byte SHA1 prefix like "54cbe6e6", because +that was automatically rendered as a clickable link by "gitk", but with +git-1.7.10, the more descriptive version-containing "git describe" format +that we now require is also highlighted. + Curly braces: use judiciously ============================= |