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

Vikram Choudhary vikschw at gmail.com
Fri Sep 25 14:55:41 UTC 2015


+1 for <=80 chars. It will be uniform with the existing coding style.

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
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