Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakan...@vmware.com> writes:
> On 03.05.2013 20:56, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 01:42:33PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> Yeah. The recommended style is to have the first line be 50 chars or
>>> less, which is a bit unfortunate - it can be a challenge to keep to
>>> that limit for a meaningful or comprehensive subject.
> Oh, that's tight. I didn't know about the 50 char recommendation. I've
> tried to keep mine < 76 chars, so that when you do "git log", it fits on
> a 80 char display with the 4 char indentation that git log does.
Yeah, that's news to me too. I've been using a 75-char line length for
all my commit messages since we switched to git. It's frequently tough
enough to get a useful headline into 75 chars --- I can't see trying to
do 50.
regards, tom lane
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