[openstack-dev] [all] -1 due to line length violation in commit messages

Gary Kotton gkotton at vmware.com
Thu Oct 1 08:05:03 UTC 2015


+1

On 10/1/15, 10:56 AM, "Ghe Rivero" <ghe.rivero at gmail.com> wrote:

>If anyone disagrees with the commit format, please, go ahead and fix it
>(It's
>really easy using the gerrit web) For such cosmetic changes (and others
>similars), we should not wait for the author to do it. Sometimes, for a
>stupid
>comma, and with all the TZ, a change can need more than a day to be fixed
>and
>approved.
>
>Ghe Rivero
>
>Quoting Ihar Hrachyshka (2015-09-29 18:05:37)
>> > On 25 Sep 2015, at 16:44, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > releases are approaching, so it¹s the right time to start some bike
>>shedding on the mailing list.
>> >
>> > Recently I got pointed out several times [1][2] that I violate our
>>commit message requirement [3] for the message lines that says:
>>"Subsequent lines should be wrapped at 72 characters.²
>> >
>> > I agree that very long commit message lines can be bad, f.e. if they
>>are 200+ chars. But <= 79 chars?.. Don¹t think so. Especially since we
>>have 79 chars limit for the code.
>> >
>> > We had a check for the line lengths in openstack-dev/hacking before
>>but it was killed [4] as per openstack-dev@ discussion [5].
>> >
>> > I believe commit message lines of <=80 chars are absolutely fine and
>>should not get -1 treatment. I propose to raise the limit for the
>>guideline on wiki accordingly.
>> >
>> > Comments?
>> >
>> > [1]: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/224728/6//COMMIT_MSG
>> > [2]: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/227319/2//COMMIT_MSG
>> > [3]: 
>>https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GitCommitMessages#Summary_of_Git_commit_m
>>essage_structure
>> > [4]: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/142585/
>> > [5]: 
>>http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-December/thread.h
>>tml#52519
>> >
>> > Ihar
>>
>> Thanks everyone for replies.
>>
>> Now I realize WHY we do it with 72 chars and not 80 chars (git log
>>output). :) I updated the wiki page with how to configure Vim to enforce
>>the rule. I also removed the notion of gating on commit messages because
>>we have them removed since recently.
>>
>> Ihar
>>
>>
>> 
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