On 4/22/2023 12:51 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The programmatic expression of the standards is in add-log.el, I
> think.

Thanks, that was helpful. From that, I see that you can list multiple 
files separated by commas and a space like so:

   * file1.txt, file2.txt

add-log.el's font-lock doesn't allow lists of files like that to span 
multiple lines, but I think it's reasonable to support that in the 
hooks. Everything else about the entries can span multiple lines, after all.

With add-log.el as a reference, I tightened up the Git hooks a bit so 
that they're stricter. They're still reasonably flexible though, e.g. it 
won't treat something like this as a file entry:

   * This is a bullet point.

That will help reduce false positives so that committers can format the 
description of their commit fairly freely. Hopefully this is a good 
balance: the hooks are stricter than authors.el, but not so strict that 
reasonable (IMO) messages will be rejected.