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Commit summary length hints (warning at 50, error at 72) #1635

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@Zykino

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The waning coloring on the commit message is quite restrictive. Especially when company want to tag some commits with the issue ID it resolve, if the commit is a feature, a fix, … or sometime the [functionality] impacted. Real world software (screen size, website view, …) are more tolerant on long sized summary. Learning materials I read are more permissive than this 50 char "rule", ex in https://cbea.ms/git-commit/#limit-50 they say:

So shoot for 50 characters, but consider 72 the hard limit.

Even in the linux kernel some message may be very long https://stackoverflow.com/a/11993051.

Describe the solution you'd like
When writing the summary, a warning color (yellow/orange) appear at 50 glyph, this transform in an error (current red is good) wean reaching 72 glyphs.
I really like to have a warning when I arrive at 50, I see if I should rephrase it now or not. When reaching 72 I take a bit more time to shorten my summary (and sometimes expand the body).

Describe alternatives you've considered
Keeping things as is since the real message is not limited in size. Or having configurable values.

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