On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 13:09:29 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 21:36 +0200, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 12:20:01 -0700 > > Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > waah, I use 75 and this patch has ruined my life. > > crybaby... :) I'm very sensitive. > > I use 75 too, FWIW. > > > > It seems to me that nobody out there complains about 75-character lines > > in commit logs; it's the 120-character lines that irritate people. I > > would suggest that this limit could be set to 75 (or even, say, 77) > > 77 might be one too many. > > git log has a default 4 space indent of the commit message so > 75 or 76 would still fit an 80 column screen. That's a good point. Good enough to be in a changelog ;) 76 sounds a bit risky - I don't think I trust every output device to dtrt with 80-column text. I might be wrong about that. 75 would save my handkerchiefs. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
