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by chj 2753 days ago
Reads like well written git commit messages.
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If only you could write git messages like that... A lot of those messages would have to be shortened considerably to fit the 50 character summary.

It's annoying how frequently the shortest and best summary I can think of ends up at ~55 characters, and I have to omit important cotext or detail and include that in the body instead.

Why not just leave it at ~55 characters? 50 characters is not a hard limit. See the Linux commits, for example: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...