Hi Pekka,

feel free to change the check script [1] to whatever is most comfortable to
you :-) (sorry today I'm very busy so I can't do it myself; but I'm happy
to review it once ready).

Regards,
Martine

[1]
https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/blob/master/dist/tools/commit-msg/check.sh

Am Mi., 10. Okt. 2018 um 12:14 Uhr schrieb Nikander Pekka <
[email protected]>:

> Thanks Martine and all!
>
> My memory is bad.  Now that I saw your answer, Martine, I remembered that
> I have asked about this before, in some other forum, and have got the same
> answer.  But I didn't remember it.
>
> That is, Travis tricked me again.
>
> If possible, it would be very nice if Travis (and make static-test) was
> changed so that I won't get tricked again and won't again start doing work
> which is not needed.
>
> In more precise terms, could the string
>
>   Commit message is longer than 50 characters:
>
> be changed to
>
>  Warning: Commit message is longer than 50 characters (but still < 70
> characters):
>
> Had there been at least that one more word, "Warning:", this whole noise
> would not have taken place.
>
> --Pekka
>
> On 10.10.2018, at 12:50, Ken Bannister <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Martine and I discussed this over a PR a few months ago. The outcome was
> to update the Good Pull Request wiki page [1], which basically says what
> has just been discussed on this thread. Good to spread the word and share
> the link. :-)
>
> Ken
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/wiki/Guidelines-for-Creating-a-Good-Pull-Request
>
> On 10/10/2018 03:31 AM, Joakim Nohlgård wrote:
>
> +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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