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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Ian Morris <ipm@chirality.org.uk>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-doc <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch/SubmittingPatches: Suggest line wrapping commit messages at 72 columns
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 13:09:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1427918969.31790.78.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150401213618.029f8c1f@lwn.net>

On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 21:36 +0200, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 12:20:01 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > waah, I use 75 and this patch has ruined my life.

crybaby... :)

> I use 75 too, FWIW.
> 
> It seems to me that nobody out there complains about 75-character lines
> in commit logs; it's the 120-character lines that irritate people.  I
> would suggest that this limit could be set to 75 (or even, say, 77)

77 might be one too many.

git log has a default 4 space indent of the commit message so
75 or 76 would still fit an 80 column screen.

> and
> still achieve its real purpose while leaving far fewer ruined lives in its
> wake. 

I don't wanna be held liable for that ruination, thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-01 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1427634005-4313-1-git-send-email-ipm@chirality.org.uk>
     [not found] ` <20150331.135338.519327316482059081.davem@davemloft.net>
     [not found]   ` <1427825806.10376.42.camel@perches.com>
2015-03-31 18:40     ` [PATCH] checkpatch/SubmittingPatches: Suggest line wrapping commit messages at 72 columns Joe Perches
2015-03-31 19:06       ` David Miller
2015-04-01 19:20       ` Andrew Morton
2015-04-01 19:28         ` Joe Perches
2015-04-01 19:36         ` Jonathan Corbet
2015-04-01 20:09           ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-04-01 20:18             ` Andrew Morton
2015-04-01 20:33               ` [PATCH V2] checkpatch/SubmittingPatches: Suggest line wrapping commit messages at 75 columns Joe Perches

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