From 26b19b1e545ae8f1eaeefd9b0cb5c3e42945d93d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bunder2015 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 13:08:00 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] GitHub: commit messages are now 72 characters long --- Git-and-GitHub-for-beginners.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Git-and-GitHub-for-beginners.md b/Git-and-GitHub-for-beginners.md index 942b2e3..1144902 100644 --- a/Git-and-GitHub-for-beginners.md +++ b/Git-and-GitHub-for-beginners.md @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ This command opens an editor and adds all unstaged files from your branch. Here # ``` -The first thing we need to add is the commit message. This is what is displayed on the git log, and should be a short description of the change. By style guidelines, this has to be less than 50 characters in length. +The first thing we need to add is the commit message. This is what is displayed on the git log, and should be a short description of the change. By style guidelines, this has to be less than 72 characters in length. Underneath the commit message you can add a more descriptive text to your commit. The lines in this section have to be less than 72 characters.