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Great advice for commit message formatting. It’s absolutely vital that the first line not exceed 65 characters (50 is suggested and good practice). Browsing around github.com, I see a ton of commits with an entire paragraph on the first line and it drives me crazy. This destroys git log, tig, git format-patch, and a lot of other commands that use the first line as a short message — even git pull shows it when the HEAD moves.