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work on the project voluntarily and without compensation for the time
that they spend doing these tasks.
+@section primerpatchguide Guidelines for Submitting Patches
+
+- Each patch file should contain:
+ - A commit description that describes all of the changes.
+ - A separator line that contains three hyphens: <code>---</code>
+ - A summary of the changes produced by diffstat (optional)
+ - Another separator line (optional)
+ - The actual patch contents, containing a single change.
+
+- Each patch series should include:
+ - A summary of the patches in the series.
+ - Logically-related patches that contain incremental changes.
+
*/
/** @file
This file contains the @ref primerpatches page.