[PATCH] Documentation/maintainer-tip: Fix grammar

From: Thorsten Blum

Date: Mon Mar 02 2026 - 08:57:28 EST


s/a empty newline/an empty newline/

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst
index 41d5855700cd..b2b14439be22 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ following tag ordering scheme:
Changelog text starts here....

so the authorship is preserved. The 'From:' line has to be followed
- by a empty newline. If that 'From:' line is missing, then the patch
+ by an empty newline. If that 'From:' line is missing, then the patch
would be attributed to the person who sent (transported, handled) it.
The 'From:' line is automatically removed when the patch is applied
and does not show up in the final git changelog. It merely affects
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Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
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