doc: correct the 50 characters soft limit
PATCH 1/1 doc: correct the 50 characters soft limit
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The soft limit of the first line of the commit message should be "no more than 50 characters" or "50 characters or less", but not "less than 50 character".
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doc: correct the 50 characters soft limit
The soft limit of the first line of the commit message should be "no more than 50 characters" or "50 characters or less", but not "less than 50 character".
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1580%2FRed54%2Fdoc-patch-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1580/Red54/doc-patch-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1580
Documentation/git-commit.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Documentation/git-commit.txt +1 -1
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ DISCUSSION ---------- Though not required, it's a good idea to begin the commit message -with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the +with a single short (no more than 50 characters) line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough description. The text up to the first blank line in a commit message is treated as the commit title, and that title is used throughout Git.
base-commit: bcb6cae2966cc407ca1afc77413b3ef11103c175
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gitgitgadget
"謝致邦 (XIE Zhibang) via GitGitGadget" <[email protected]>
Quoted 3 lines · writes:
The soft limit of the first line of the commit message should be "no more than 50 characters" or "50 characters or less", but not "less than 50 character".
The limit being "soft", I highly doubt that anybody would wonder if a title that is exactly 50 columns wide is or is not acceptable.
The updated one is more grammatically correct than the original, so the patch is not without merit, though ;-)
Thanks.
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Though not required, it's a good idea to begin the commit messageDocumentation/git-commit.txt +1
-1-with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the +with a single short (no more than 50 characters) line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough description. The text up to the first blank line in a commit message is treated as the commit title, and that title is used throughout Git.base-commit:
bcb6cae2966cc407ca1afc77413b3ef11103c175