Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Instruct how to use [PATCH] Subject header

From: Jari Aalto <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:24:10 +0200

Suggest putting additional message inside brackets, like [PATCH v2]
for reworked content.

Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto AT cante.net>
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 Idea by Jakub Narebski

 Documentation/SubmittingPatches |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index de08d09..69ecbd3 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ Checklist (and a short version for the impatient):
 	  maintainer ([email-masked]). If you use
 	  git-send-email(1), please test it first by sending
 	  email to yourself.
+        - If you rework the patch, announce the message
+          in brackets. For example "[PATCH/RFC]", "[PATCH (resend)]",
+          "[PATCH v2]" etc.
 
 Long version:
 
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