commit a40ebe73a1e0e3a4b7b5be464f1bd7952bd1c394
author Emil Velikov <emil.veliko@collabora.com> Mon Feb 13 19:23:41 2017 +0000
committer Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com> Mon Feb 20 18:21:22 2017 +0000
tree f553cffd3519f532527388b1bb47b5fba90e6bd9
parent 9e4248b20695672bd0fe8668cea290d2aecd36bd

docs/submittingpatches.html: document the Fixes tag

Provide information and an example.

Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolai Hähnle <nicolai.haehnle@amd.com>

docs/submittingpatches.html

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 <pre>
    Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89689
 </pre>
+<li>If a patch addresses a issue introduced with earlier commit, that should be
+noted in the patch comment.  For example:
+<pre>
+   Fixes: d7b3707c612 "util/disk_cache: use stat() to check if entry is a directory"
+</pre>
 <li>If there have been several revisions to a patch during the review
 process, they should be noted such as in this example:
 <pre>