Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: dmm32at: Fixed a code indent issue

[Sudip Mukherjee]

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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