docs: reword a sentence a bit

The "that you know ahead of time" bit just sounded weird as everything on this
page except the backport MR only applies if you know it "ahead of time".

Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/5378>

diff --git a/docs/submittingpatches.rst b/docs/submittingpatches.rst
index 4262d107776ca2a7c3766cc639c19db0e9bd1bfd..1556226ddec2be993bbb8802e5c83ab5f55982cb 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/submittingpatches.rst
+++ b/docs/submittingpatches.rst
@@ -275,11 +275,10 @@ The stable tag
 If you want a commit to be applied to a stable branch, you should add an
 appropriate note to the commit message.
 
-Using a "fixes tag" as described in `Patch formatting <#formatting>`__
-is the preferred way to nominate a commit that you know ahead of time
-should be backported. There are scripts that will figure out which
-releases to apply the patch to automatically, so you don't need to
-figure it out.
+Using a ``Fixes:`` tag as described in `Patch formatting <#formatting>`__
+is the preferred way to nominate a commit that should be backported.
+There are scripts that will figure out which releases to apply the patch
+to automatically, so you don't need to figure it out.
 
 Alternatively, you may use a "CC:" tag. Here are some examples of such a
 note: