From e0ec8eda63a75cadd8e3ac943f5924b8dbe8f01a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Yann E. MORIN\"" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:03:48 +0200
Subject: readme: document patch description


diff --git a/README b/README
index 97be369..4fe8d88 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ You can find a (terse and WIP) documentation in docs/overview.txt.
 You can also point your browser to
   http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/projects/crosstool
 
-PARTICIPATING /
-_____________/
+CONTRIBUTING /
+____________/
 
 Sending a bug report
 --------------------
@@ -50,6 +50,19 @@ that you may find usefull:
   - mq        : http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MqExtension
   - patchbomb : http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/PatchbombExtension
 
+Commit messages should look like (without leading pipes):
+ |component: short, one-line description
+ |
+ |optional longer description
+ |on multiple lines if needed
+
+Here is an example commit message (see revision a53a5e1d61db):
+ |comp-libs/cloog: fix building
+ |
+ |For CLooG/PPL 0.15.3, the directory name was simply cloog-ppl.
+ |For any later versions, the directory name does have the version, such as
+ |cloog-ppl-0.15.4.
+
 Here's a typical hacking session:
   hg clone http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/hg/crosstool-ng crosstool-ng
   cd crosstool-ng
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