scripts: check commit formatting

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / contributing / patches.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
index 3ebe95bf1023c86f0537f2002e1a06c76d60ce82..06af91d6c4329025122ebfce46dd572bde4393f7 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
@@ -258,6 +258,14 @@ Where:
 * ``-v``: verbose.
 * ``patchX``: path to one or more patches.
 
+Then the git logs should be checked using the ``check-git-log.sh`` script.
+
+The script usage is::
+
+   check-git-log.sh [range]
+
+Where the range is a ``git log`` option.
+
 
 .. _contrib_check_compilation: