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SubmittingPatches: who am I and who cares?
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The introductory text in the "long version" talks about the origin
of this document with "I started ...", but it is unclear who that I
is, and more importantly, it is not interesting how it was started.

Just state the purpose of the document to help readers decide if it
is releavant to them.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Expand Up @@ -60,14 +60,8 @@ Checklist (and a short version for the impatient):

Long version:

I started reading over the SubmittingPatches document for Linux
kernel, primarily because I wanted to have a document similar to
it for the core GIT to make sure people understand what they are
doing when they write "Signed-off-by" line.

But the patch submission requirements are a lot more relaxed
here on the technical/contents front, because the core GIT is
thousand times smaller ;-). So here is only the relevant bits.
Here are some guidelines for people who want to contribute their code
to this software.

(0) Decide what to base your work on.

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