On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 12:23 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Ken Manheimer <ken.manheimer@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 12:07:47 -0400
> >
> > Hi! After a long while since submitting patches (for allout.el and
> related stuff) I have a few new ones to
> > submit, and am trying to track down canonical guidance on proper
> procedures for submitting them. (This
> > was spurred by bug@11312, but I have some fixes for independent bugs as
> well.)
> > [...]
> > I'm guessing that I should put the equivalent of what would have been in
> the ChangeLog in the commit
> > messages, but thought I'd ask here for proper guidance. I welcome
> pointers to documents I missed that
> > would have made this simpler, as well!
>
> Yes.  Try reading CONTRIBUTE in the repository, I hope it is less
> confusing.  You can also look at the style of commit log messages with
> "git log".
>

CONTRIBUTE seems to be more current and clear. Together with
your confirmation, I feel I have the info I need. (It might make sense to
put notes in documents like Submitting Patches deferring to CONTRIBUTE,
though that might also require some time and attention to reconcile them...)


> Thanks.
>

Thank you!