Variable: git-commit-summary-max-length

git-commit-summary-max-length is a customizable variable defined in git-commit.el.

Value

68

Documentation

Column beyond which characters in the summary lines are highlighted.

The highlighting indicates that the summary is getting too long by some standards. It does in no way imply that going over the limit a few characters or in some cases even many characters is anything that deserves shaming. It's just a friendly reminder that if you can make the summary shorter, then you might want to consider doing so.

Source Code

;; Defined in ~/.emacs.d/elpa/magit-20260411.1452/git-commit.el
(defcustom git-commit-summary-max-length 68
  "Column beyond which characters in the summary lines are highlighted.

The highlighting indicates that the summary is getting too long
by some standards.  It does in no way imply that going over the
limit a few characters or in some cases even many characters is
anything that deserves shaming.  It's just a friendly reminder
that if you can make the summary shorter, then you might want
to consider doing so."
  :group 'git-commit
  :safe 'numberp
  :type 'number)