On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:05:09AM -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote: > git tools such as git log and git show indent the commit message in > their output, so you don't actually have the full 79/80 character width > to work with. That's where the 72 comes from. It is also commonly done because so that when you copy commits into email, the commit message doesn't get further line breaks inserted. This isn't a big deal with openstack, as we don't use an email workflow for patch review. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|