On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As I could not find any documentation on the > magical 50 in the early days, I cc'd Linus > in case there is something I did not think of yet. Nothing magical, it's just "rounded up from 40 + NUL character". Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html