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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING index 250bbdbf24..b65463c030 100644 --- 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 - 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 |