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 It should include the entire URL to the pull request, as these often act as code reviews for the code.
 For example: `https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/745`
 
+| `Closes:`
+| This change concludes the patch series discussed at the specified Github pull request, and closes that request.
+It should include the entire URL to the pull request, as these often act as code reviews for the code.
+For example: `https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/745`
+
 |`Co-authored-by:`
 |The name and email address of an additional author of the commit.
 GitHub has a detailed description of the Co-authored-by trailer at https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/committing-changes-to-your-project/creating-and-editing-commits/creating-a-commit-with-multiple-authors.