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Re: generating CHANGES with git

From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka_at_redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:25:10 +0200

On Saturday 19 of June 2010 23:03:49 Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> A short guide to how to do fine commit messages in the curl project.
>
> ---- start ----
> [area]: [short line describing the main effect]
>
> [separate the above single line from the rest with an empty line]
>
> [full description, no wider than 65 columns that describes as much as
> possible as to why this change is made, and possibly what things
> it fixes and everything else that is related]
> ---- stop ----

I am just curious. Where does the "65 columns" limit come from? Sorry, if it
has been already explained somewhere.

Kamil
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