From 7cf4706a85a7f659adbeeae8bdea8dbcc360415b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Kling Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 19:15:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Meta: Advise people to wrap commit messages as 72 characters instead GitHub wraps shortlog messages at 72 characters, and this seems to be the norm anyway, so let's just adapt. --- Contributing.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Contributing.md b/Contributing.md index 6f1c5636c7..76689ab857 100644 --- a/Contributing.md +++ b/Contributing.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Nobody is perfect, and sometimes we mess things up. That said, here are some goo * Choose expressive variable, function and class names. Make it as obvious as possible what the code is doing. * Split your changes into separate, atomic commits. * Make sure your commits are rebased on the master branch. -* Wrap your commit messages at 77 characters. +* Wrap your commit messages at 72 characters. * Write your commit messages in proper English, with care and punctuation. **Don't:**