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Merge #14600: docs: Clarify commit message guidelines

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0e6de3aacb added details about commit messages (Martin Erlandsson)

Pull request description:

  In this small PR, the gist of [this helpful and informative comment from @fanquake](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14583#issuecomment-433668211) is added to the official contributing instructions, to help future first-time contributors get their commit messages right.

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@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ If a particular commit references another issue, please add the reference. For
example: `refs #1234` or `fixes #4321`. Using the `fixes` or `closes` keywords
will cause the corresponding issue to be closed when the pull request is merged.
Commit messages should never contain any `@` mentions.
Please refer to the [Git manual](https://git-scm.com/doc) for more information
about Git.
@ -135,6 +137,10 @@ before it will be merged. The basic squashing workflow is shown below.
# Save and quit.
git push -f # (force push to GitHub)
Please update the resulting commit message if needed, it should read as a
coherent message. In most cases this means that you should not just list the
interim commits.
If you have problems with squashing (or other workflows with `git`), you can
alternatively enable "Allow edits from maintainers" in the right GitHub
sidebar and ask for help in the pull request.