> tries to limit my commit messages to 50 or 55 characters The tools try to limit the summary line of Git commit message to 50 characters. Not the whole messag

> tries to limit my commit messages to 50 or 55 characters The tools try to limit the summary line of Git commit message to 50 characters. Not the whole message. That is a useful convention. The usual convention is described here: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#_discussion https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#_discussion