diff --git a/.commitlintrc.yml b/.commitlintrc.yml
index 97ef404..4a27749 100644
--- a/.commitlintrc.yml
+++ b/.commitlintrc.yml
@@ -71,18 +71,20 @@ rules:
     - 2
     - never
     - '.'
-  # Body lines wrap at 100 cols for hand-authored commit messages.
-  # Footers (the trailing "Closes #N. ..." / "Part of #N. ..." blocks
-  # that admin squash-merge appends) get a separate, larger budget —
-  # the squash message can pull a long PR-description summary into the
-  # footer, and 100 cols there is too tight. 200 is plenty (longest
-  # footer historically: ~125 chars for "Part of #105. ... PR4 ... to
-  # follow in this same issue.") while still bounding pathological
-  # autogenerated walls of text.
+  # Body lines wrap at 100 cols for hand-authored commit messages,
+  # EXCEPT for the body of an admin squash-merge commit, which routinely
+  # pulls a paragraph from the PR description. The squash-merge prose
+  # typically has no `Closes #N` trailer (so commitlint classifies it
+  # as body, not footer — see #120 for the original analysis), and a
+  # 100-char wrap there is too tight: the v1.1.0 prep squash body's
+  # longest line was 106 chars and the prior three (#117/#118/#119)
+  # all exceeded the cap for the same reason. 200 is the same budget
+  # we give footers; hand-authored commits are unaffected because
+  # contributors don't paste 200-col prose into commit messages.
   body-max-line-length:
     - 2
     - always
-    - 100
+    - 200
   footer-max-line-length:
     - 2
     - always