what I think was meant by "deprecated"

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / patch.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/patch.mdwn b/doc/patch.mdwn
index 05476a4082c1a1132a4dab8a73d0ce46e67ad4ad..7d0f9847c5f1847e3554074c5c39c82ae26031d2 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/patch.mdwn
+++ b/doc/patch.mdwn
@@ -4,5 +4,9 @@ to duplicate work without coordination, here's a queue of suggested patches.
 If you post a patch to the [[todo]] or [[bugs]] list, or elsewhere,
 once it's ready to be applied, add a 'patch' tag so it will show up here.
 
-[[inline pages="(todo/* or bugs/*) and link(patch) and !link(bugs/done) and
+If your patch is non-trivial and might need several iterations to get
+right, or you'd just like to make it easy for [[Joey]] to apply it,
+please consider publishing a [[git]] [[branch|branches]].
+
+[[!inline pages="(todo/* or bugs/*) and link(patch) and !link(bugs/done) and
 !link(todo/done) and !*/Discussion" rootpage="todo" archive="yes"]]