Re: master 9ccaa09a635: ; .dir-locals.el (log-edit-mode) <fill-column>: Set to 64.

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2024 12:21:37 -0800
> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> 
> >> This, and other bullet points are all talking in the context of a single
> >> commit. But this paragraph talks about multiple ChangeLog entries within
> >> one commit (*after* the summary line and descriptive paragraph). After
> >> carefully reading this, I think it means that one ChangeLog entry is a
> >> line of the form "* some/file.el (function): Frobnicate the widget."
> > 
> > Yes.  But where did you see any verbiage to the contrary?
> 
> The first sentence of the section begins, "Ordinarily, a change you 
> commit should contain a log entry in its commit message...". That is, 
> there's just one log entry in the commit message. Here, it mentions 
> multiple entries in a single commit.

So that single use of "entry" (not "ChangeLog entry", mind you) was
what confused you?  very well, now that single instance is gone as
well.

> In practice, I think this section of CONTRIBUTE is clear enough for 
> people to understand how to properly-format their commit messages, and 
> my main confusion was in whether to account for TAB characters in the 
> ChangeLog *files* when counting columns for wrapping.

The text talks about ChangeLog entries in a commit log message, and
explicitly says "unindented", so the answer is definitely NO.

Thanks.