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 Once a patch has been reviewed and approved on Phabricator it can then be
-committed to trunk.  There are multiple workflows to achieve this. Whichever
-method you follow it is recommend that your commit message ends with the line:
+committed to trunk. If you do not have commit access, somebody else has to
+commit the change for you (with attribution). Usually it is sufficient to add
+a comment to the approved review indicating you cannot commit the patch
+yourself. If you have commit access, there are multiple workflows to commit the
+change. Whichever method you follow it is recommend that your commit message
+ends with the line:
 
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