docs: add note about sending merge-requests from forks

Sending MRs from the main Mesa repository increase clutter in the
repository, and decrease visibility of project-wide branches. So it's
better if MRs are sent from forks instead.

Let's add a note about this, in case its not obvious to everyone.

Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <erik.faye-lund@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>

diff --git a/docs/submittingpatches.html b/docs/submittingpatches.html
index 736cbd64de8beab41568441a83d59ab7a9a4b11f..137e39c925d2aa36f5bafad32a1a2087b9dfc210 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/submittingpatches.html
+++ b/docs/submittingpatches.html
@@ -258,6 +258,8 @@ your email administrator for this.)
       rebased
     <li>Make sure your MR is closed if your patches get pushed outside
       of GitLab
+    <li>Please send MRs from a personal fork rather than from the main
+      Mesa repository, as it clutters it unnecessarily.
   </ul>
 </p>