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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2025-05-25 12:08:02 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2025-05-25 12:08:02 +0300 |
| commit | 421ecbcf6b476c413675e93c074f1399db146fc8 (patch) | |
| tree | c9598258ceb9d8d80c0b6758e381848415a8b294 /CONTRIBUTE | |
| parent | df9636f89276da6023cc4851d089665203961941 (diff) | |
; * CONTRIBUTE: Explain the line-width preferences.
Diffstat (limited to 'CONTRIBUTE')
| -rw-r--r-- | CONTRIBUTE | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index 06e6fe45c84..2da47fa35f8 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/CONTRIBUTE @@ -231,7 +231,9 @@ formatting them: - Lines in ChangeLog entries should preferably be not longer than 63 characters, and must not exceed 78 characters, unless they consist of a single word of at most 140 characters; this 78/140 limit is - enforced by a commit hook. + enforced by a commit hook. (The 63-character preference is to + avoid too-long lines in the ChangeLog file generated from Git logs, + where each entry line is indented by a TAB.) - If only a single file is changed, the summary line can be the normal first line of a ChangeLog entry (starting with the asterisk). Then |