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doc: correct the 50 characters soft limit (+)

The soft limit of the first line of the commit message should be
"no more than 50 characters" or "50 characters or less", but not
"less than 50 character".

This is an addition to commit c2c349a15c (doc: correct the 50 characters
soft limit, 2023-09-28).

Signed-off-by: 谢致邦 (XIE Zhibang) <Yeking@Red54.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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谢致邦 (XIE Zhibang) and committed by
Junio C Hamano 1627e6b4 c2c349a1

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unified split
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Documentation/gittutorial.txt
··· 137 137 them to the index, and commit, all in one step. 138 138 139 139 A note on commit messages: Though not required, it's a good idea to 140 - begin the commit message with a single short (less than 50 character) 141 - line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more 142 - thorough description. The text up to the first blank line in a commit 143 - message is treated as the commit title, and that title is used 140 + begin the commit message with a single short (no more than 50 141 + characters) line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and 142 + then a more thorough description. The text up to the first blank line in 143 + a commit message is treated as the commit title, and that title is used 144 144 throughout Git. For example, linkgit:git-format-patch[1] turns a 145 145 commit into email, and it uses the title on the Subject line and the 146 146 rest of the commit in the body.
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Documentation/user-manual.txt
··· 1122 1122 === Creating good commit messages 1123 1123 1124 1124 Though not required, it's a good idea to begin the commit message 1125 - with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the 1125 + with a single short (no more than 50 characters) line summarizing the 1126 1126 change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough 1127 1127 description. The text up to the first blank line in a commit 1128 1128 message is treated as the commit title, and that title is used
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po/README.md
··· 412 412 - Do not use non-ASCII characters in the subject of a commit. 413 413 414 414 - The length of commit subject (first line of the commit log) should 415 - be less than 50 characters, and the length of other lines of the 415 + be no more than 50 characters, and the length of other lines of the 416 416 commit log should be no more than 72 characters. 417 417 418 418 - Add "Signed-off-by" trailer to your commit log, like other commits