[PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Cite the 50 char subject limit
- From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jul 28, 2010, 14:11 UTC
- Message-ID
- <1280326285-10203-1-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>
Change the SubmittingPatches recommendations to mention the 50 character soft limit on patch subject lines. 50 characters is the soft limit mentioned in git-commit(1) and gittutorial(7), it's also the point at which Gitweb, GitHub and various other Git front ends start abbreviating the commit message.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index eb53e06..099b238 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ Checklist (and a short version for the impatient): before committing - do not check in commented out code or unneeded files - the first line of the commit message should be a short - description and should skip the full stop + description (50 characters is the soft limit, see DISCUSSION + in git-commit(1)), and should skip the full stop - the body should provide a meaningful commit message, which: - uses the imperative, present tense: "change", not "changed" or "changes".
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