docs: add note about sending merge-requests from forks
authorErik Faye-Lund <erik.faye-lund@collabora.com>
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:34:28 +0000 (10:34 +0100)
committerErik Faye-Lund <erik.faye-lund@collabora.com>
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:14:06 +0000 (18:14 +0100)
Sending MRs from the main Mesa repository increase clutter in the
repository, and decrease visibility of project-wide branches. So it's
better if MRs are sent from forks instead.

Let's add a note about this, in case its not obvious to everyone.

Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <erik.faye-lund@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
docs/submittingpatches.html

index 736cbd6..137e39c 100644 (file)
@@ -258,6 +258,8 @@ your email administrator for this.)
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     <li>Make sure your MR is closed if your patches get pushed outside
       of GitLab
+    <li>Please send MRs from a personal fork rather than from the main
+      Mesa repository, as it clutters it unnecessarily.
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