From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753662AbbDAUSa (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2015 16:18:30 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:34286 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752945AbbDAUS0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2015 16:18:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 13:18:24 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Joe Perches Cc: Jonathan Corbet , David Miller , Ian Morris , netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML , linux-doc Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch/SubmittingPatches: Suggest line wrapping commit messages at 72 columns Message-Id: <20150401131824.efafdf9c97188f97cb4a212c@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1427918969.31790.78.camel@perches.com> References: <1427634005-4313-1-git-send-email-ipm@chirality.org.uk> <20150331.135338.519327316482059081.davem@davemloft.net> <1427825806.10376.42.camel@perches.com> <1427827225.18175.3.camel@perches.com> <20150401122001.f0203b0ddac348db14e5822a@linux-foundation.org> <20150401213618.029f8c1f@lwn.net> <1427918969.31790.78.camel@perches.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 13:09:29 -0700 Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 21:36 +0200, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 12:20:01 -0700 > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > waah, I use 75 and this patch has ruined my life. > > crybaby... :) I'm very sensitive. > > I use 75 too, FWIW. > > > > It seems to me that nobody out there complains about 75-character lines > > in commit logs; it's the 120-character lines that irritate people. I > > would suggest that this limit could be set to 75 (or even, say, 77) > > 77 might be one too many. > > git log has a default 4 space indent of the commit message so > 75 or 76 would still fit an 80 column screen. That's a good point. Good enough to be in a changelog ;) 76 sounds a bit risky - I don't think I trust every output device to dtrt with 80-column text. I might be wrong about that. 75 would save my handkerchiefs.