Add a note in the contributing file about trivial commits.

A better explanation of where the "CLA: trivial" line goes and how to add
it post hoc.

Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9265)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING
index 250bbdbf24f96fb2224cb87757e089f83a1a5c5c..b65463c030c0cb4c9dfdd8e2550d73e38eabec3a 100644 (file)
--- a/CONTRIBUTING
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING
@@ -19,8 +19,16 @@ guidelines:
     1. Anything other than a trivial contribution requires a Contributor
     License Agreement (CLA), giving us permission to use your code. See
     https://www.openssl.org/policies/cla.html for details.  If your
     1. Anything other than a trivial contribution requires a Contributor
     License Agreement (CLA), giving us permission to use your code. See
     https://www.openssl.org/policies/cla.html for details.  If your

-    contribution is too small to require a CLA, put "CLA: trivial" on a
-    line by itself in your commit message body.
+    contribution is too small to require a CLA (e.g. fixing a spelling
+    mistake), place the text "CLA: trivial" on a line by itself separated by
+    an empty line from the rest of the commit message. It is not sufficient to
+    only place the text in the GitHub pull request description.
+
+    To amend a missing "CLA: trivial" line after submission, do the following:
+
+        git commit --amend
+        [add the line, save and quit the editor]
+        git push -f

 
     2.  All source files should start with the following text (with
     appropriate comment characters at the start of each line and the
 
     2.  All source files should start with the following text (with
     appropriate comment characters at the start of each line and the