On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 01:59:58PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > On 03/02/2020 13:54, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > >None of this are *rules*. We should not pretend they are. An email > >subject should be useful to what the receivers of that email use it for: > >see if it very interesting to them, see if it probably not interesting > >to them: that's the "smth: " at the start, and the PR number at the end, > >and of course the actual subject itself, so we should not put in too > >much fluff in the subject, there needs to be room left (in the less than > >fifty chars total) for an actual subject :-) > > > >(The example in the patch does not capitalise the subject line, btw. > >It should.) > > 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. > > 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.
Oh, and it's not a limit, just a strong recommendation. Segher
