+1 what Martine wrote.

(I was composing a similar message when you beat me to it)
/Joakim

Den ons 10 okt. 2018 08:51Martine Lenders <[email protected]> skrev:

> Hi Pekka,
>
> the 50 chars is just the warning bound. You can go up to 70 until the
> commit message check fails on you. Longer will make GitHub break the commit
> message in the webview with the dreaded […] ;-).
>
> My usual approach is to boil down the summary to the bare minimum within
> these constraints (even using just the module name instead of the full
> path) and go into details in the following lines of the commit message.
>
> Regards,
> Martine
>
> Am Mi., 10. Okt. 2018 um 08:06 Uhr schrieb Nikander Pekka <
> [email protected]>:
>
>> [Refactoring the nRF520 mega-PR to follow the standards...]
>>
>> I guess this has been bashed to death, but I am annoyed.
>>
>> With long paths, the 50 characters limit on the first line
>> of the commit message makes it impossible to have any meaningful
>> explanation of what the commit actually does.  Actually,
>> the limitation makes the commit messages unintelligible.
>>
>> _Any_ change of increasing the limit to e.g. 72 characters?
>>
>> --Pekka
>>
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