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manual: contributing: don't recommend leaving out changelog from patches

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Currently, the manual states that if you send a series and include a
changelog in the introduction mail (0 of x), it is not necessary to include
a changelog on the individual patches.
This is not always convenient: for large patch series it requires going back
to the introduction mail when opening each patch, to understand what
changed.
This patch rewords the paragraph accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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Thomas De Schampheleire 2014-03-06 11:07:33 +01:00 committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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@ -228,8 +228,8 @@ Patch revision changelog
When improvements are requested, the new revision of each commit
should include a changelog of the modifications between each
submission. Note that when your patch series is introduced by a cover
letter, the changelog may be added in the cover letter rather than in
the individual commits.
letter, an overall changelog may be added to the cover letter in
addition to the changelog in the individual commits.
When added to the individual commits, this changelog is added when
editing the commit message. Below the +Signed-off-by+ section, add