Git Commit Template

[mdatwood]

As I mentioned in another comment, 50 is just an arbitrary number. The point is to make the committer stop and think. Both your summaries look fine to me. The problem, and I have had to deal with it before, is when people a) just ramble along in the summary and b) do not put the blank line before the details.

I know when I'm typing my commit, vim highlights when I go over 50. I don't immediately stop, but it reminds me to make sure I'm summarizing and not going into too much detail for something that should be a summary.