[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] Commit message policy?

Renato Golin renato.golin at linaro.org
Wed Sep 24 16:08:55 PDT 2014


On 25 September 2014 00:03, Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tend to follow something like that anyway so I think it's a good
> idea, but if anything I'd prefer a longer title line than the body.
> Particularly with the prefixes we tend to put in there, 50 chars is
> hardly anything.

I only mentioned 50-col because that's what Vim helps me do automatically. :)

I'm fine with larger titles, but not larger than 70-col, which should
be plenty, since we don't have complex branching in git. GMail can
cope with up to 90 chars (+preamble) in the subject.

cheers,
--renato



More information about the cfe-dev mailing list