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            "value": "\n          <p><a href=\"\/daily\/2024\/05\/17\/why-i-dont-commit-with--m\">I write and advocate for others to write<\/a> detailed Git commit messages within the subject body to provide context and information about why the commit was needed, what other options were considered, any consequences or knock-on effects there could be, or even code snippets or pseudo code.<\/p>\n\n<p>Recently, I was curious to know which commit in a repository has the longest commit message, what code has changed in that commit, and who wrote it.<\/p>\n\n<p>I was hoping for a command like <code>git shortlog --summary --all<\/code> (which shows all authors to a codebase and their number of commits), but couldn't find one, so <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/opdavies\/git-commit-length-counter\">I wrote a script to do it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>It's a bash script that loops over the commits in the repo, calculates the length of each message, sorts them and shows the commit with longest message.<\/p>\n\n<p>It was an interesting task and shows examples of using various UNIX commands and Linux coreutils, such as <code>find<\/code>, <code>cut<\/code>, <code>sort<\/code> and <code>wc<\/code> in combination with Git.<\/p>\n\n<p>The longest in this website's code base is <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/opdavies\/oliverdavies.uk-drupal\/commit\/cbd1417b24a608df8b451a3ab5c9f888de41e758\">546 characters<\/a>, which is fairly small compared to some of my messages in other projects.<\/p>\n\n<p>What's the longest commit message in the repository you're working in?<\/p>\n\n        ",
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