diff --git a/config.org b/config.org
index fed9c62..b891c6f 100644
--- a/config.org
+++ b/config.org
@@ -1990,9 +1990,12 @@ Having an IDE-style tooltip pop up is nice, but ~flymake-popon~ is a bit ugly by
 
 I use GPG signing for commits, which means that committing often takes longer than the single second timeout. Eight seconds seems like a reasonable amount of time to type in a password.
 
+Let's also increase the maximum length of commit summaries past the default of 50 characters, because that's a very restrictive limit.
+
 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
 (after! git-commit
-  (setq git-commit-post-finish-hook-timeout 8))
+  (setq git-commit-post-finish-hook-timeout 8
+        git-commit-summary-max-length 60))
 #+end_src
 
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