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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2022-11-11 09:14:14 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2022-11-11 09:14:14 +0200 |
| commit | 161cb6034cec114b59f8fabc4230b3f48ac6cecb (patch) | |
| tree | 06d36fa487246f9d2f429c67655cafe8048147e8 /CONTRIBUTE | |
| parent | 0f5352377539bc2587b9bfd068de0f4b3bf8b248 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-161cb6034cec114b59f8fabc4230b3f48ac6cecb.tar.gz | |
; * CONTRIBUTE: Clarify the log message line width guidelines.
Diffstat (limited to 'CONTRIBUTE')
| -rw-r--r-- | CONTRIBUTE | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index 94d757daafe..c226645bd7c 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/CONTRIBUTE @@ -202,9 +202,10 @@ them right the first time, so here are guidelines for formatting them: you can put a paragraph (after the empty line and before the individual ChangeLog entries) that further describes the commit. -- Limit lines in commit messages to 78 characters, unless they consist - of a single word of at most 140 characters; this is enforced by a - commit hook. +- Lines in ChangeLog entries should preferably be not longer than 63 + characters, and must not exceed 78 characters, unless they consist + of a single word of at most 140 characters; this 78/140 limit is + enforced by a commit hook. - If only a single file is changed, the summary line can be the normal file first line (starting with the asterisk). Then there is no |