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Message-ID: <20150106135025.GA17196@sudip-PC>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 19:20:25 +0530
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To: Konrad Zapalowicz <bergo.torino@...il.com>
Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>, Piotr Kubus <p.t.kubus@...il.com>,
gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: dmm32at: Fixed a code indent issue
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 02:33:27PM +0100, Konrad Zapalowicz wrote:
> On 01/06, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > yes, i read the SubmittingPatches again. summary is the subject line. But then as Piotr Kubus has written that he could not find this rule in the documentaion, I also tried to find that in SubmittingPatches file and also in the Posting file of the development-process folder, but could not find it. Is it mentioned in some other file we missed ?
>
> Then it is an 'unwritten rule' :) You can observe it just be browsing
> the git log commit messages - pick a few random and you will see.
i don't need to veify it, I don't doubt the rule. if you see all the patches i have sent, i have always maintained a rule of 70.
just curious why this 72 ..
this one gives a reason why -
http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html
sudip
>
> Moreover in the http://git-scm.com/book/ch5-2.html the 72-character
> columns are the example of the good commit message plus Linus says so:
>
> "we use 72-character columns for word-wrapping, except for quoted
> material that has a specific line format."
>
> in one of his comments
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-5661185
>
> cheers,
> konrad
>
> > sudip
> > >
> > > --
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