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Doc update. * xz/commit-title-soft-limit-doc: doc: correct the 50 characters soft limit (+)
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Documentation/gittutorial.txt

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A note on commit messages: Though not required, it's a good idea to
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begin the commit message with a single short (less than 50 character)
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line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more
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thorough description. The text up to the first blank line in a commit
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message is treated as the commit title, and that title is used
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begin the commit message with a single short (no more than 50
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characters) line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and
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then a more thorough description. The text up to the first blank line in
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a commit message is treated as the commit title, and that title is used
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throughout Git. For example, linkgit:git-format-patch[1] turns a
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commit into email, and it uses the title on the Subject line and the
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rest of the commit in the body.

Documentation/user-manual.txt

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=== Creating good commit messages
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Though not required, it's a good idea to begin the commit message
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with a single short (no more than 50 characters) line summarizing the
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change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough
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description. The text up to the first blank line in a commit
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message is treated as the commit title, and that title is used

po/README.md

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- Do not use non-ASCII characters in the subject of a commit.
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- The length of commit subject (first line of the commit log) should
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be less than 50 characters, and the length of other lines of the
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be no more than 50 characters, and the length of other lines of the
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commit log should be no more than 72 characters.
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- Add "Signed-off-by" trailer to your commit log, like other commits

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