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Clarify that "the sentence after <area>: prefix does not begin with
a capital letter" rule applies only to the commit title.

* jc/use-of-uc-in-log-messages:
  SubmittingPatches: use usual capitalization in the log message body
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Junio C Hamano 2022-10-17 14:56:35 -07:00
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@ -153,7 +153,9 @@ files you are modifying to see the current conventions.
[[summary-section]]
The title sentence after the "area:" prefix omits the full stop at the
end, and its first word is not capitalized unless there is a reason to
end, and its first word is not capitalized (the omission
of capitalization applies only to the word after the "area:"
prefix of the title) unless there is a reason to
capitalize it other than because it is the first word in the sentence.
E.g. "doc: clarify...", not "doc: Clarify...", or "githooks.txt:
improve...", not "githooks.txt: Improve...". But "refs: HEAD is also