On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 09:50:26AM +0200, Jan Pazdziora wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:37:12PM -0400, Jesus Rodriguez wrote:
> > 
> > Thoughts? I suspect the lengths will cause folks to balk at this
> > suggestion :)
> 
> -1.
> 
> I do not like restricting length of the first line of the commit
> message to 50 character. In fact, I do not like restricting length of
> the first line of the commit message at all.

Why not?

The first line is simply a summary or the topic of the patch. You can be
as verbose as you want in the body of the commit message. It's just like
an email; you wouldn't put the whole body of the message in the subject.

Frankly, if you can't summarize a change in 50 or so characters (I
wouldn't place a hard limit, myself), then your change is probably doing
more than one thing, and should be broken into smaller changes.

> 
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> Jan Pazdziora
> Senior Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
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-James

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