[PATCH, v3] wwwdocs: e-mail subject lines for contributions
Jonathan Wakely
jwakely.gcc@gmail.com
Mon Feb 3 14:13:00 GMT 2020
On Mon, 3 Feb 2020 at 14:00, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> Where does your '50 chars' limit come from? It's not in the glibc text,
> and it's not in the linux kernel text either. AFAICT this is your
> invention and you seem to be the only person proposing it.
It's a fairly well established convention, e.g.
https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/ and it's what Github suggests
(and whines if you go past it).
> 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.
I'm OK with that.
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