[libvirt] [PATCH] docs: Release notes should be updated in a separate commit

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Fri Feb 3 09:37:50 UTC 2017


On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 10:22:03 +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> Updating docs/news.xml in the same commit that performs the
> documented change makes backports needlessly complicated,
> both for mainteinance branches and downstream distributions,
> because it introduces additional potential for merge
> conflicts.
> 
> Document in the contributor guidelines that the release notes
> should be updated in a separate commit instead, so that it's
> easy to backport just the code change.
> ---
>  docs/hacking.html.in | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

ACK
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