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| author | Profpatsch <mail@profpatsch.de> | 2019-11-15 15:05:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Profpatsch <mail@profpatsch.de> | 2019-11-15 15:06:54 +0100 |
| commit | 85c2bb37816dd79724a27ce7b97647a2ebf21ec0 (patch) | |
| tree | 601390955505b2a9ec730681430c70c148e3b86d /doc | |
| parent | 50d06185cafa6232dd3a317bbf87f2f7d1b2b453 (diff) | |
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doc/contributing: mention the word “backporting” for grep-ability
When a contributor wants to know how to do this ominous “backporting” everybody is talking about, a grep should be enough to find it.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/contributing/submitting-changes.xml | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/contributing/submitting-changes.xml b/doc/contributing/submitting-changes.xml index 6a8b4e0b249..950e1ea974a 100644 --- a/doc/contributing/submitting-changes.xml +++ b/doc/contributing/submitting-changes.xml @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ Additional information. <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para> - If you're cherry-picking a commit to a stable release branch, always use <command>git cherry-pick -xe</command> and ensure the message contains a clear description about why this needs to be included in the stable branch. + If you're cherry-picking a commit to a stable release branch (“backporting”), always use <command>git cherry-pick -xe</command> and ensure the message contains a clear description about why this needs to be included in the stable branch. </para> <para> An example of a cherry-picked commit would look like this: |