After seeing people use the @jetbrains UI to commit to git I understand where all those - sorry: shitty - commit messages come from…
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An improvement would already be to have a “Subject” line and the text box.
And have the subject line follow the Beams Rule.
Sonthat the first line of the commit message finishes the sentence
“When this commit is applied it will…”
And please: No longer than 56(?) characters (Unicode). Keep it short. You got the textbox to explain *why* in full length.
@heiglandreas @jetbrains are you writing commit messages on a Nokia 3320? Even limiting at 80 had some meaning, but 56 is just an arbitrary low number that sometimes requires an English Masters degree to achieve.
56 characters is ridiculous 😂 We’re not in the hole-punching era of computing. We have screens with resolutions that can easily fit 200-300 characters horizontally. My wraps across nearly everything are 100 characters.
Even code at 80 characters I find a joke from the era of 80 character terminals forcing people to have variable names like
mCar,pItm,ctx,ptc,hln,vln,lfor list,mfor map and so on. Sure, it fits in 80 characters, but you might as well be reading obfuscated code.Anti Commercial-AI license