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not later when you can't remember which patch you changed. You can always
go back and change or remove logs from commits.
+7. Some mailing lists have size limits and when we add binary contents to
+our patches it's easy to exceed the size limits. Use "--no-binary" to
+generate patches without any binary contents. You are supposed to include
+a link to a git repository in your "Commit-notes", "Series-notes" or
+"Cover-letter" for maintainers to fetch the original commit.
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