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CONTRIBUTING: Document the Fixes header.

Document the use of the Fixes header to refer to a commit that
introduced a bug being fixed.

Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <russell@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
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Russell Bryant
2015-12-09 14:04:01 -05:00
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@@ -231,6 +231,16 @@ Examples of common tags follow.
in old change log entries. (They are obsolete because they do
not tell the reader what bug tracker is referred to.)
Fixes: 63bc9fb1c69f (“packets: Reorder CS_* flags to remove gap.”)
If you would like to record which commit introduced a bug being fixed,
you may do that with a “Fixes” header. This assists in determining
which OVS releases have the bug, so the patch can be applied to all
affected versions. The easiest way to generate the header in the
proper format is with this git command:
git log -1 --pretty=format:"Fixes: %h (\"%s\")" --abbrev=12 COMMIT_REF
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