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authorThien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>2001-07-07 06:24:37 +0000
committerThien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>2001-07-07 06:24:37 +0000
commit7e238e4afb05c516cf4f0b7d931ecb55beab47bd (patch)
tree57ee155e6b7a7d607e5a2f2edf1311767f05c8a4 /HACKING
parent99f59e93b517f163b00e3cbe47bc65cd0c209a0b (diff)
In "Contributing Your Changes", distiguish
between AUTHORS and THANKS usage.
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@@ -77,7 +77,9 @@ or diff -u). Don't include a patch for ChangeLog; such patches don't
apply cleanly, since we've probably changed the top of ChangeLog too.
Instead, provide the unaltered text at the top of your patch.
-- For proper credit, also make sure you update the AUTHORS file.
+- For proper credit, also make sure you update the AUTHORS file
+(for new files for which you've assigned copyright to the FSF), or
+the THANKS file (for everything else).
Please don't include patches for generated files like configure,
aclocal.m4, or any Makefile.in. Such patches are often large, and