[llvm] r237405 - Add a missing piece of existing practice to the developer policy. This may need further refinement, but I think is roughly correct.

[Nick Lewycky]

Author: nicholas
Date: Thu May 14 18:21:33 2015
New Revision: 237405

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=237405&view=rev
Log:
Add a missing piece of existing practice to the developer policy. This may need further refinement, but I think is roughly correct.

Modified:
    llvm/trunk/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst

Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst?rev=237405&r1=237404&r2=237405&view=diff
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--- llvm/trunk/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst (original)
+++ llvm/trunk/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst Thu May 14 18:21:33 2015
@@ -324,6 +324,11 @@ Below are some guidelines about the form
 * Text formatting and spelling should follow the same rules as documentation
   and in-code comments, ex. capitalization, full stop, etc.
 
+* If the commit is a bug fix on top of another recently committed patch, or a
+revert or reapply of a patch, include the svn revision number of the prior
+related commit. This could be as simple as "Revert rNNNN because it caused
+PR#".
+
 For minor violations of these recommendations, the community normally favors
 reminding the contributor of this policy over reverting. Minor corrections and
 omissions can be handled by sending a reply to the commits mailing list.