From: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
To: Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] MyFirstContribution: also explain cover letter in GitGitGadget section
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:43:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed4a0e46-a45c-0b05-fc35-f82e377ea231@github.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <afb80b8e9ee022cba9373f2191ee1619e5897b09.1651086288.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
>
> The "Sending Patches via GitGitGadget" section mentions that the PR
> title and description will be used as the cover letter, but does not
> explain what is a cover letter or what should be included in it.
>
> Mention the purpose of the cover letter in that section, and give
> examples for the title and description, leveraging the excerpt extracted
> from the "Sending Patches with git send-email" section in the previous
> commit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
> ---
> Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt
> index 681bbefe9cd..96da32f7cef 100644
> --- a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt
> @@ -808,8 +808,20 @@ https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git and open a PR either with the "New pull
> request" button or the convenient "Compare & pull request" button that may
> appear with the name of your newly pushed branch.
>
> -Review the PR's title and description, as it's used by GitGitGadget as the cover
> -letter for your change. When you're happy, submit your pull request.
> +Review the PR's title and description, as they're used by GitGitGadget as the
> +cover letter for your change. The cover letter describes your proposed
> +contribution as a whole and is ideal to mention any context that might be
> +useful for reviewers. The title of your PR should be something which
> +succinctly covers the purpose of your entire topic branch, for example:
> +
> +----
> +Adding the 'psuh' command
Typically I see patch series titles follow the same "imperative mood" as
commit titles/messages (see 'Documentation/SubmittingPatches.txt'). I'm not
sure whether that's a rule written down somewhere or just convention, but
for the sake of consistency you might want to do something like:
"Add the 'psuh' command"
> +----
> +
> +Your PR's description will used as the body of the cover letter.
Including the line "Your PR's description..." is somewhat confusing to me as
a first-time reader, since I was interpreting this section to be the
*verbatim* text of the pull request title & description. If this *is* meant
to be that description, then the note about the PR description can be
removed. That point is also mentioned above, so it's probably not needed
here anyway.
> +include::MyFirstContribution-coverletter.txt[]
> +
> +When you're happy, submit your pull request.
>
> [[run-ci-ggg]]
> === Running CI and Getting Ready to Send
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-27 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-27 19:04 [PATCH 0/3] Improve MyFirstContribution's GitGitGadget section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-04-27 19:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] MyFirstContribution: move cover letter description to a separate file Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-04-27 21:15 ` Eric Sunshine
2022-04-27 22:02 ` Philippe Blain
2022-04-27 21:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 18:16 ` Philippe Blain
2022-04-27 19:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] MyFirstContribution: also explain cover letter in GitGitGadget section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-04-27 20:43 ` Victoria Dye [this message]
2022-04-28 18:21 ` Philippe Blain
2022-04-29 16:27 ` Victoria Dye
2022-05-10 23:45 ` Philippe Blain
2022-04-27 19:04 ` [PATCH 3/3] MyFirstContribution: drop PR description for GGG single-patch contributions Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-04-27 21:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 18:25 ` Philippe Blain
2022-04-28 19:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-11 1:47 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Improve MyFirstContribution's GitGitGadget section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11 1:47 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] MyFirstContribution: add "Anatomy of a Patch Series" section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11 6:20 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2022-05-11 21:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-11 21:48 ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-11 22:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-12 23:00 ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-12 12:11 ` Philip Oakley
2022-05-12 22:53 ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-11 1:47 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] MyFirstContribution: add standalone section on cover letter Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11 10:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-11 21:49 ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-11 1:47 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] MyFirstContribution: reference "The cover letter" in "Preparing Email" Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11 1:47 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] MyFirstContribution: reference "The cover letter" in GitGitGadget section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11 1:47 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] MyFirstContribution: drop PR description for GGG single-patch contributions Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11 10:11 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Improve MyFirstContribution's GitGitGadget section Junio C Hamano
2022-05-11 17:45 ` Victoria Dye
2022-05-12 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 " Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-12 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] MyFirstContribution: add "Anatomy of a Patch Series" section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-12 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] MyFirstContribution: add standalone section on cover letter Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-12 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] MyFirstContribution: reference "The cover letter" in "Preparing Email" Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-12 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] MyFirstContribution: reference "The cover letter" in GitGitGadget section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-12 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] MyFirstContribution: drop PR description for GGG single-patch contributions Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-19 21:49 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] Improve MyFirstContribution's GitGitGadget section Junio C Hamano
2022-05-21 16:17 ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-22 1:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-24 12:29 ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-24 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
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