docs/devel/submitting-a-pull-request.rst

7 sent as simple patch emails to the mailing list (see our page on
8 :ref:`submitting-a-patch`
11 patch series we might ask a submitter to send a pull request. This page
19 do this is to use ``git format-patch --cover-letter`` to create the
24 retransmitted patch mails (for example, by using
25 ``--subject-prefix=PULL`` in your ``git format-patch`` command). This
29 **Each patch must have your own Signed-off-by: line** as well as that of
30 the original author if the patch was not written by you. This is because
31 with a pull request you're now indicating that the patch has passed via
46 fixed patch series as normal to the list; you can't put it in a pull
51 everything builds (including that it compiles at each step of the patch