Re: Mistakes in commit log messages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 10:44:42 +0000
> Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> > Btw, Alan, this is a good example of your log messages, which are
> > filled using a much larger value of fill-column that the default.  The
> > resulting ChangeLog entries appear ugly and stand out from the rest.
> > Would you please adjust your customizations to use a smaller
> > fill-column value, like at most 76, when writing commit log messages?
> 
> I've been using a fill-column of 78, to match the maximum allowed width.

When we produce ChangeLog from the Git logs, the messages are indented
on tab stop, so 78 is way too large.  Even just "git log" will show
you that 78 is too large, since Git indents the log messages by 4
spaces.

> I'll try cutting that down to 63, as recommended in CONTRIBUTE.

Thank you.