Mesa (master): docs: reword a sentence a bit

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Module: Mesa
Branch: master
Commit: 731465192a995e5448d015303ab8e4307a101b81
URL:    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=731465192a995e5448d015303ab8e4307a101b81

Author: Eric Engestrom <eric at engestrom.ch>
Date:   Sun Jun  7 17:53:07 2020 +0200

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

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 docs/submittingpatches.rst | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/submittingpatches.rst b/docs/submittingpatches.rst
index 4262d107776..1556226ddec 100644
--- 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: