SubmittingPatches: Cite the 50 char subject limit
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> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason committed
Jul 28, 2010 at 14:11 UTC
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@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ Checklist (and a short version for the impatient):
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before committing
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- do not check in commented out code or unneeded files
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- the first line of the commit message should be a short
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- description and should skip the full stop
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+ description (50 characters is the soft limit, see DISCUSSION
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+ in git-commit(1)), and should skip the full stop
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- the body should provide a meaningful commit message, which:
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- uses the imperative, present tense: "change",
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not "changed" or "changes".