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

Dmitry Tantsur dtantsur at redhat.com
Fri Sep 25 14:52:14 UTC 2015


On 09/25/2015 04:44 PM, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> releases are approaching, so it’s 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.”
>
> I agree that very long commit message lines can be bad, f.e. if they are 200+ chars. But <= 79 chars?.. Don’t 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.

+1, I never understood it actually. I know some folks even question 80 
chars for the code, so having 72 chars for commit messages looks a bit 
weird to me.

>
> 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_message_structure
> [4]: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/142585/
> [5]: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-December/thread.html#52519
>
> Ihar
>
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________________
> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Unsubscribe: OpenStack-dev-request at lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe
> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
>




More information about the OpenStack-dev mailing list