From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 9ccaa09a635: ; .dir-locals.el (log-edit-mode) <fill-column>: Set to 64.
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2024 09:09:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <865xyzxwi4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0e8b1009-1491-2fb7-9efc-c415ed66d334@gmail.com> (message from Jim Porter on Wed, 7 Feb 2024 19:10:14 -0800)
> 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.
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[not found] ` <20240207024915.38686C0EFEC@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2024-02-07 20:01 ` master 9ccaa09a635: ; .dir-locals.el (log-edit-mode) <fill-column>: Set to 64 Stefan Kangas
2024-02-08 1:36 ` Po Lu
2024-02-08 3:10 ` Jim Porter
2024-02-08 3:34 ` Po Lu
2024-02-08 6:13 ` Jim Porter
2024-02-08 7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-08 17:49 ` Jim Porter
2024-02-08 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-08 20:21 ` Jim Porter
2024-02-08 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-18 2:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-02-18 3:16 ` Po Lu
2024-02-18 11:36 ` bug#69223: 30.0.50; fill-column in log-edit-mode wraps ChangeLog entries incorrectly Stefan Kangas
2024-02-08 7:09 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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