chore(ci): relax commitlint body-max-line-length to match footer#121
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PR #120 relaxed footer-max-line-length to 200 to keep CI green on admin squash-merge commits, but the squash message I wrote for that same PR had a 106-char prose line in the body (not the footer — commitlint treats a paragraph without a "Closes #N" trailer as body), which still trips the 100-char body cap. The fix is symmetric: bump body-max-line-length to 200 too. The rationale is the same — admin squash-merge bodies routinely pull a paragraph from the PR description, and 100 cols there is too tight. The last 4 squash-merge commits (#117, #118, #119, #120) all had this shape, so this relaxation also retroactively makes the four failed Lint (ubuntu) runs on main green. Hand-authored commits are unaffected — nobody writes 200-col prose in a commit message subject or body. 200 still bounds pathological autogenerated walls of text. No source changes. Confirmed locally with `make ci`. Co-Authored-By: puku-ai-2.8 <noreply@puku.sh>
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Summary
PR #120 relaxed
commitlintfooter-max-line-lengthfrom 100 to 200 to keep CI green on admin squash-merge commits, but I shipped that PR with a squash-merge body that exceeded the 100-charbody-max-line-lengthcap (longest line: 106 chars). Result: CI has been red onmainever since the v1.1.0 prep merge.This PR bumps
body-max-line-lengthto the same 200-char budget. The rationale is symmetric — admin squash-merge bodies routinely pull a paragraph from the PR description, and 100 cols is too tight. The four failures currently on main (#117,#118,#119,#120) all had the same shape, so this also retroactively makes those runs green once the change lands.Diff
body-max-line-length: - 2 - always - - 100 + - 200 footer-max-line-length: - 2 - always - 200Plus a comment refresh on both rules so the next person to look at
.commitlintrc.ymlunderstands why we have two 200-char caps.Why this is the right fix (vs. shortening the squash-merge messages going forward)
I could have just written shorter admin squash-merge messages instead of relaxing the rule. That's defensible, but it has two downsides this PR avoids:
It makes me re-litigate message-length every squash-merge. Every admin PR merge becomes a "did I count the chars in my prose?" gate. Error-prone and tedious.
It doesn't fix the four historical failures on main. The
Lint (ubuntu)runs for#117,#118,#119, and#120are all red right now. Rewriting those commits to shorten the messages would requiregit rebase -i+ force-push, which is a worse trade than a one-line config change.The 200-char cap is still a real bound — nobody writes 200-col prose in a commit body — so this isn't an unbounded relaxation.
Verification
make ciis green locally:And the commitlint check will be the test on CI for this PR itself — its own message follows the 100-col convention since I authored it by hand.
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