linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch/SubmittingPatches: Suggest line wrapping commit messages at 72 columns

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Date:	Wed, 01 Apr 2015 12:28:46 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ian Morris <ipm@...rality.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-doc <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch/SubmittingPatches: Suggest line wrapping
 commit messages at 72 columns

On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 12:20 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:40:25 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> 
> > Commit messages are sometimes overly long.
> > Suggest line wrapping at 72 columns.
> 
> waah, I use 75 and this patch has ruined my life.

hmm... 1/4/15 or is it 4/1/15?

> Is there some way I can disable just this check without patching
> checkpatch?  I suspect a lot of people will be interested in doing
> this ;)

You could s/72/75/.  I won't care.

Using "./scripts/checkpatch.pl --ignore=commit_log_long_line"
would work too.



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