On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:02:56 -0400
> > Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, 77140@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> >  Thanks, but please make the lines in the log message shorter (see
> >  CONTRIBUTE for guidance).  This includes both the heading and the rest
> >  of the log message.
> >
> > This commit log entry summary is 64 chars (less than the 79 max target)
> and the rest of the log is filled to 72
> > (.dir-locals.el is in effect), so I'm missing what you are suggesting.
>
> The log message is indented with a TAB when we generate the ChangeLog
> file from the Git log, so the 72-character lines will be 81, more than
> we'd like to see in ChangeLog.  CONTRIBUTE says "Lines in ChangeLog
> entries should preferably be not longer than 63 characters" for that
> reason.  Please try not to exceed this limit, unless you really must
> (like if you need to quote a long URL there).
>

Got it.  I've adjusted my 'git-commit-mode' 'fill-column' accordingly.
Revised patch attached.