GNU bug report logs - #20401
refill long lines in generated ChangeLog

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Message #8 received at 20401 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20401 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: refill long lines in generated ChangeLog
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 18:24:23 -0700

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> it's not just me that has written lines slightly too long.

That's right, lots of people are doing it, and it makes more busywork when 
cleaning up ChangeLogs, which sucks.  I don't have much faith in fixing this 
automagically, as a lot could go wrong.

There's a much simpler fix (see attached) but Stefan nixed it (see 
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-12/msg01640.html>) for 
reasons that I don't follow.  Perhaps we could take another run at him and he'll 
relent this time.

Another possibility is that we set the tab-width in ChangeLog files to 2, so 
that 78-character log lines fit in ChangeLog files when displayed via Emacs. 
(I'm *sure* nobody would complain about *that*. :-)

But really, it'd be simpler to shrink that "78" back to "72".

[0001-Encourage-shorter-commit-message-lines.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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