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diff --git a/doc/HACKING b/doc/HACKING index 5c71b74bd1..f006bb6164 100644 --- a/doc/HACKING +++ b/doc/HACKING @@ -61,9 +61,10 @@ it's a bugfix, mention what bug it fixes and when the bug was introduced. To find out which Git tag the change was introduced in, you can use "git describe --contains <sha1 of commit>". -If at all possible, try to create this file in the same commit where -you are making the change. Please give it a distinctive name that no -other branch will use for the lifetime of your change. +If at all possible, try to create this file in the same commit where you are +making the change. Please give it a distinctive name that no other branch will +use for the lifetime of your change. To verify the format of the changes file, +you can use "make check-changes". When we go to make a release, we will concatenate all the entries in changes to make a draft changelog, and clear the directory. We'll |