On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> Is it possible for the git hooks to reject pushes with overly-long subject
> lines?
>
> I occasionally see pushes that forgot to add a separate title line, and so the
> whole of the commit description gets used.
Is that where the whole description is a single long unwrapped line?
(The case of no blank line after the first line - a message starting with
a multi-line paragraph - should already be diagnosed.)
We've disabled the check on lengths of lines in commit messages:
# We do not want to force a maximum line length in commit
# revision logs, as they get in the way of copy-pasting
# debugging session, error messages, logs, etc.
max-rh-line-length = 0
But we could add a local check in our commit_checker script for just the
length of the first line (alongside the checks for a first line that looks
like a ChangeLog header or is just a single word).
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Joseph S. Myers
jos...@codesourcery.com
