For my own commits in my personal repos I often find that less than 80 chars are sufficient to describe the change entirely. I generally don't care about surpassing 80 chars for commit messages though, so even if my commit message is somewhat long I won't split it up.
I commit very often and usually small, "atomic" changes most of the time.
What I will do, is that I start the commit message with the most important sentence and add less important sentences after, so even if it exceeds 80 chars and you can't see the whole message you will still get the most relevant info without having to scroll sideways.
I commit very often and usually small, "atomic" changes most of the time.
What I will do, is that I start the commit message with the most important sentence and add less important sentences after, so even if it exceeds 80 chars and you can't see the whole message you will still get the most relevant info without having to scroll sideways.
For reference, here are the commits to a project I am currently working on: https://github.com/eriknstr/jumper/commits/master