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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2015-04-16 21:44:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-04-17 15:03:57 +0200 |
| commit | 2a076f40d8c9be95bee7bcf18436655e1140447f (patch) | |
| tree | e905ba409c28e126fea5f558e51eb52368a36ed5 /Documentation | |
| parent | checkpatch: don't ask for asm/file.h to linux/file.h unconditionally (diff) | |
| download | linux-2a076f40d8c9be95bee7bcf18436655e1140447f.tar.xz linux-2a076f40d8c9be95bee7bcf18436655e1140447f.zip | |
checkpatch, SubmittingPatches: suggest line wrapping commit messages at 75 columns
Commit messages lines are sometimes overly long.
Suggest line wrapping at 75 columns so the default git commit log
indentation of 4 plus the commit message text still fits on an 80 column
screen.
Add a checkpatch test for long commit messages lines too.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ian Morris <ipm@chirality.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 447671bd2927..b03a832a08e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -614,8 +614,8 @@ The canonical patch message body contains the following: - An empty line. - - The body of the explanation, which will be copied to the - permanent changelog to describe this patch. + - The body of the explanation, line wrapped at 75 columns, which will + be copied to the permanent changelog to describe this patch. - The "Signed-off-by:" lines, described above, which will also go in the changelog. |