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

Ihar Hrachyshka ihrachys at redhat.com
Tue Sep 29 16:05:37 UTC 2015


> On 25 Sep 2015, at 16:44, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> 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.
> 
> 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

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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