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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 24/09/2026 05:35, Matthias Goergens wrote: > A git T: entry in MAINTAINERS may name a branch after the repository > URL, and where it does, that branch rather than the repository's HEAD > is the one to prepare patches against. Say so where contributors are > sent to the T: entry. > > Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/arSMwd1bGO1vrif-@mit.edu/ > Signed-off-by: Matthias Goergens > --- > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 5 +++-- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst > index 7ae79452e1b4..2936388dcaee 100644 > --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst > +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst > @@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ which can be grabbed with:: > Note, however, that you may not want to develop against the mainline tree > directly. Most subsystem maintainers run their own trees and want to see > patches prepared against those trees. See the **T:** entry for the subsystem > -in the MAINTAINERS file to find that tree, or simply ask the maintainer if > -the tree is not listed there. > +in the MAINTAINERS file to find that tree, and the branch to work against if > +the entry names one, or simply ask the maintainer if the tree is not listed > +there. Honestly this should be squashed with previous. It is one logical change - amend format of T: entry and update the docs which reference that T:. Best regards, Krzysztof