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doc: slightly relax 50 character rule
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Allow commit message first line to exceed 50 chars if necessary

PR-URL: #16523
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Anatoli Papirovski <apapirovski@mac.com>
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
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jasnell committed Oct 29, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -309,8 +309,8 @@ notes about [commit squashing](#commit-squashing)).
A good commit message should describe what changed and why.

1. The first line should:
- contain a short description of the change
- be 50 characters or less
- contain a short description of the change (preferably 50 characters or less,
and no more than 72 characters)
- be entirely in lowercase with the exception of proper nouns, acronyms, and
the words that refer to code, like function/variable names
- be prefixed with the name of the changed subsystem and start with an
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