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    docs: Fix botched rST conversion of 'submitting-a-patch.rst' · cd6b1674
    Kashyap Chamarthy authored and Thomas Huth's avatar Thomas Huth committed
    I completely botched up the merged[0] rST conversion of this document by
    accidentally dropping entire hunks (!) of text. :-(  I made it very hard
    for reviewers to spot it, as the omitted text was buried deep in the
    document.  To fix my hatchet job, I reconverted the "SubmitAPatch"
    wiki[1] page from scratch and replaced the existing rST with it, while
    making sure I incorporated previous feedback.
    
    In summary, in this reconverted edition:
    
    - I did a careful (to the extent my eyes allowed) para-by-para
      comparison of the wiki and the rST to make sure I didn't omit
      anything accidentally.
    
    - I made sure to work in the cosmetic feedback[2] that Thomas Huth
      pointed out in the merged (and botched) edition:
    
       - fix the hyperlinks in "Split up long patches"
    
       - replace ".". with "does not end with a dot" (in "Write a meaningful
         commit message" section)
    
       - replace "---" with ``---`` so that it doesn't render as an em-dash
         (there were ...
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