From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20401: refill long lines in generated ChangeLog Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 18:24:23 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <553C3E47.9090404@cs.ucla.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------040409010004000500010700" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430012124 16651 80.91.229.3 (26 Apr 2015 01:35:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 01:35:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20401@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 26 03:35:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YmBTQ-00020b-Kp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 03:35:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49664 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmBTQ-0006L9-0M for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 21:35:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56679) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmBTK-0006AE-8q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 21:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmBJe-0001jy-Qr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 21:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:50281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmBJe-0001hy-N3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 21:25:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YmBJe-00018p-DE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 21:25:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 01:25:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20401 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 20401-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20401.14300114744347 (code B ref 20401); Sun, 26 Apr 2015 01:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20401) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Apr 2015 01:24:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40057 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YmBJC-000183-2q for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 21:24:34 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:49950) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YmBJ9-00017n-I2 for 20401@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 21:24:32 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B755B39E801C; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 18:24:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bZF7twF-vXd3; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 18:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 28F0839E8015; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 18:24:24 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:102045 Archived-At: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040409010004000500010700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > it's not just me that has written lines slightly too long. That's right, lots of people are doing it, and it makes more busywork when cleaning up ChangeLogs, which sucks. I don't have much faith in fixing this automagically, as a lot could go wrong. There's a much simpler fix (see attached) but Stefan nixed it (see ) for reasons that I don't follow. Perhaps we could take another run at him and he'll relent this time. Another possibility is that we set the tab-width in ChangeLog files to 2, so that 78-character log lines fit in ChangeLog files when displayed via Emacs. (I'm *sure* nobody would complain about *that*. :-) But really, it'd be simpler to shrink that "78" back to "72". --------------040409010004000500010700 Content-Type: text/x-patch; name="0001-Encourage-shorter-commit-message-lines.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="0001-Encourage-shorter-commit-message-lines.patch" >From 9ba2c1fc35590c41fba623f892af7dd9c75e5f5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 18:14:35 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Encourage shorter commit message lines This helps keep generated ChangeLog lines less than 80 characters (Bug#20401). * build-aux/git-hooks/commit-msg: Limit lines to 72 characters. --- build-aux/git-hooks/commit-msg | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/build-aux/git-hooks/commit-msg b/build-aux/git-hooks/commit-msg index 9661376..5e46d9f 100755 --- a/build-aux/git-hooks/commit-msg +++ b/build-aux/git-hooks/commit-msg @@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ exec $awk -v at_sign="$at_sign" -v cent_sign="$cent_sign" ' } } - 78 < length && $0 ~ space { - print "Line longer than 78 characters in commit message" + 72 < length && $0 ~ space { + print "Line longer than 72 characters in commit message" status = 1 } -- 2.1.0 --------------040409010004000500010700--