Re: [PATCH v2 06/10] trace-cmd: Extr. profile-specific code from record_trace
From: Vladislav Valtchev
Date: Fri Dec 01 2017 - 06:11:00 EST
On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 12:05 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I modified the subject to:
>
> trace-cmd: Extract profile-specific code from record_trace
>
> Let's not abbreviate in the subject if we don't need to. It makes it
> harder to read.
>
I'm totally fine with not abbreviating so much the subject!
I did that because of posts like this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2290016/git-commit-messages-50-72-formatting
and because vim shows in yellow the first 50 characters of the summary, to help
people following that limitation. In order words, I've understood that I shall
try to fit in 50 chars and never exceed 72 chars.
That lead me to desperate attempts to save characters, like in patch 7 where
I tried to abbreviate "move" with "mov", but I couldn't add a dot for obvious
reasons. [Until now, I was used to make the summary fit in 80 characters.]
What is the convention for trace-cmd?
In particular, what's the hard-limit I shall never exceed ?
Vlad