; * CONTRIBUTE: Explain the line-width preferences.

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Eli Zaretskii 2025-05-25 12:08:02 +03:00
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@ -231,7 +231,9 @@ formatting them:
- Lines in ChangeLog entries should preferably be not longer than 63
characters, and must not exceed 78 characters, unless they consist
of a single word of at most 140 characters; this 78/140 limit is
enforced by a commit hook.
enforced by a commit hook. (The 63-character preference is to
avoid too-long lines in the ChangeLog file generated from Git logs,
where each entry line is indented by a TAB.)
- If only a single file is changed, the summary line can be the normal
first line of a ChangeLog entry (starting with the asterisk). Then