From adae530eb742348a2f41f1bb40aa3d7f7555927b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zwelch <zwelch@b42882b7-edfa-0310-969c-e2dbd0fdcd60>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 22:26:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add microscopic style guide at the end of the PATCH primer.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd/trunk@2501 b42882b7-edfa-0310-969c-e2dbd0fdcd60
---
 doc/manual/primer/patches.txt | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/manual/primer/patches.txt b/doc/manual/primer/patches.txt
index a3d0453f2..098766ebb 100644
--- a/doc/manual/primer/patches.txt
+++ b/doc/manual/primer/patches.txt
@@ -204,6 +204,19 @@ it or prompt for feedback.  Please have patience, as many maintainers
 work on the project voluntarily and without compensation for the time
 that they spend doing these tasks.
 
+@section primerpatchguide Guidelines for Submitting Patches
+
+- Each patch file should contain:
+  - A commit description that describes all of the changes.
+  - A separator line that contains three hyphens: <code>---</code>
+  - A summary of the changes produced by diffstat (optional)
+  - Another separator line (optional)
+  - The actual patch contents, containing a single change.
+
+- Each patch series should include:
+  - A summary of the patches in the series.
+  - Logically-related patches that contain incremental changes.
+
  */
 /** @file
 This file contains the @ref primerpatches page.
-- 
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