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> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 19:10:14 -0800
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> 
> >  See CONTRIBUTE:
> > 
> > - Lines in ChangeLog entries should preferably be not longer than 63
> >    characters, and must not exceed 78 characters, unless they consist
> >    of a single word of at most 140 characters; this 78/140 limit is
> >    enforced by a commit hook.
> 
> That passage was last changed by Eli (CCed) in 2022 (commit 
> 161cb6034cec). Previously, it said this:
> 
> > - Limit lines in commit messages to 78 characters, unless they consist
> >   of a single word of at most 140 characters; this is enforced by a
> >   commit hook.
> 
> (There was a sentence after that recommending the first line be <=50 
> columns moved elsewhere in 2021, but otherwise, that passage has been 
> that way from 2015 until Eli's change.)
> 
> In any case, if the intent is really to limit *ChangeLog entries* to 
> 78/140 columns instead of *commit messages*, then the commit hook that 
> CONTRIBUTE mentions is wrong; it checks for exceeding 78/140 columns in 
> the commit message.

The text is about ChangeLog-style entries in the commit log messages.