Documentation: Add information about patches from other git repos

This is more tribal knowledge that I don't think I've seen written down
anywhere else.  It's not a huge issue, but when looking through the git
log, it helps to be able to differentiate the information from the old
gerrit with the information from the new one.

Change-Id: I7993bda1e9aab79dc26940aaba9ddc52382ed0df
Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <martinroth@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/12804
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/gerrit_guidelines.md b/Documentation/gerrit_guidelines.md
index 3140ff5eae..1833b0a8f0 100644
--- a/Documentation/gerrit_guidelines.md
+++ b/Documentation/gerrit_guidelines.md
@@ -236,6 +236,20 @@ request. For major problems where the change doesn’t work as intended or
 breaks other platforms, the change really needs to go into the original
 patch.
 
+* When bringing in a patch from another git repo, update the original
+git/gerrit tags by prepending the lines with 'Original-'.  Marking
+the original text this way makes it much easier to tell what changes
+happened in which repository. This applies to these lines, not the actual
+commit message itself:
+        Commit-Id:
+        Change-Id:
+        Signed-off-by:
+        Reviewed-on:
+        Tested-by:
+        Reviewed-by:
+The script 'util/gitconfig/rebase.sh' can be used to help automate this.
+Other tags such as 'Commit-Queue' can simply be removed.
+
 
 Expectations contributors should have:
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