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Copyright 2014 by Assured Information Security, Inc. Created by Ross Philipson <philipsonr@ainfosec.com>. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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This is a set of guidelines for how to format commit messages for various types of commits to OpenXT. Because OpenXT uses the Github pull request mechanism, the standard patch submission via mailing lists guidelines don't really apply. There are mainly two types of commits that are addressed here. General commits are those where a pull request has one or more commits that will go directly into a repository. Patch commits are slightly different. It is still a direct commit to a repository (a patch queue in this case) but the committed item is actually a patch.

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