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.
