On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 10:00:17AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On 03/17/2017 09:30 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> In the department of nitpicks, we usually try to write commit messages
> >> so that the first line is a summary line which stands alone, and then
> >> there's a blank line, and then more follows. a la
> >> https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/#separate
>
> > Yeah, In our case email subjects seem to be truncated at 64 chars, so
> > it's best to stay under that limit if possible - 50 chars is sometimes
> > pretty limiting.
>
> FWIW, I usually try to keep line length in commit messages to <= 75
> characters, as that is the wrap boundary in "git log" output. It's
> nice if the summary line can be made shorter, but it's often damn
> hard to cram an adequate summary into 75 chars, let alone fewer.
>
> (Links to mailing-list threads must ignore the length limit, sadly.)
Here are the length limits I have found, and I display this in my email
editor when I am creating a commit message:
-- email subject limit -----------------------------------------
-- gitweb summary limit --------------------------
--
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