On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 13:09:29 -0700 Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 21:36 +0200, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

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On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 12:20:01 -0700
Andrew Morton [off-list ref] wrote:

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waah, I use 75 and this patch has ruined my life.

crybaby... :)

I'm very sensitive.

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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.