On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 01:59:58PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> I think the linux rule (the whole line, not including the parts that are
> removed on commit, should not exceed 75 characters) is far more sensible
> - which is why this draft states this.
FWIW, on a slightly older kernel tree:
$ git log --oneline --format=%s|awk '{print length}'|sort -n|uniq -c|sort -r
-n|head -10
25059 50
24872 49
24563 47
24547 48
24261 51
24050 52
23773 53
23527 46
23231 54
22907 45
On git.git:
$ git log --oneline --format=%s|awk '{print length}'|sort -n|uniq -c|sort -r
-n|head -10
1694 50
1657 49
1649 44
1623 46
1621 48
1606 43
1579 45
1558 47
1544 51
1499 37
Sometimes longer subject lines are unavoidable. Most of the time they
can be pretty easily avoided, and they hurt usability. It is okay to
spend a few minutes on it, think of the thousands of people who will
later read it.
Segher
