From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753381AbbDAUJh (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2015 16:09:37 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0238.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.238]:42012 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751964AbbDAUJf (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2015 16:09:35 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:800:960:973:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1431:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1539:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2553:2559:2562:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3352:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3872:3874:4321:5007:6261:7903:8531:10004:10400:10848:10967:11232:11639:11658:11914:12517:12519:12740:13069:13095:13255:13311:13357:14096:14097:21080,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0 X-HE-Tag: crack91_8d7187851cd52 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2005 Message-ID: <1427918969.31790.78.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch/SubmittingPatches: Suggest line wrapping commit messages at 72 columns From: Joe Perches To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Andrew Morton , David Miller , Ian Morris , netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML , linux-doc Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 13:09:29 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20150401213618.029f8c1f@lwn.net> References: <1427634005-4313-1-git-send-email-ipm@chirality.org.uk> <20150331.135338.519327316482059081.davem@davemloft.net> <1427825806.10376.42.camel@perches.com> <1427827225.18175.3.camel@perches.com> <20150401122001.f0203b0ddac348db14e5822a@linux-foundation.org> <20150401213618.029f8c1f@lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.10-0ubuntu1~14.10.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 21:36 +0200, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 12:20:01 -0700 > Andrew Morton 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.