coding-style: Document 100 chars limit for line length

The idea is to have it like a soft limit: if possible then break
lines, if not then have a long line instead of some creative
approach.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

diff --git a/docs/coding-style.rst b/docs/coding-style.rst
index cfd7b166389decff0b5e651fc073050ed49434e1..b3ac070fac863b8dfafc563a1ae55e5a361f1c88 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/coding-style.rst
+++ b/docs/coding-style.rst
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ around operators and keywords:
 
   indent-libvirt()
   {
-    indent -bad -bap -bbb -bli4 -br -ce -brs -cs -i4 -l75 -lc75 \
+    indent -bad -bap -bbb -bli4 -br -ce -brs -cs -i4 -l100 -lc100 \
            -sbi4 -psl -saf -sai -saw -sbi4 -ss -sc -cdw -cli4 -npcs -nbc \
            --no-tabs "$@"
   }
@@ -141,6 +141,9 @@ further, by piping it through ``expand -i``, since some leading
 TABs can get through. Usually they're in macro definitions or
 strings, and should be converted anyhow.
 
+The maximum permitted line length is 100 characters, but lines
+should aim to be approximately 80 characters.
+
 Libvirt requires a C99 compiler for various reasons. However, most
 of the code base prefers to stick to C89 syntax unless there is a
 compelling reason otherwise. For example, it is preferable to use