From 63cdd0723ca05e8c34ede4d11fb78b827ecb4b34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Issy Long <me@issylong.com>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:45:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Truncate long release notes in formula PR descriptions

- Some formula bumps have really long release notes which causes their
  bump PRs to exceed GitHub's 65k character limit for issue bodies.
---
 Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/bump-formula-pr.rb | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/bump-formula-pr.rb b/Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/bump-formula-pr.rb
index 3d7b867ee4..adfb59ab07 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/bump-formula-pr.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/bump-formula-pr.rb
@@ -399,10 +399,14 @@ module Homebrew
 
             if github_release_data.present?
               pre = "pre" if github_release_data["prerelease"].present?
+              # maximum length of PR body is 65,536 characters so let's truncate release notes to half of that.
+              body = github_release_data["body"].truncate(32_768)
+
               formula_pr_message += <<~XML
                 <details>
                   <summary>#{pre}release notes</summary>
-                  <pre>#{github_release_data["body"]}</pre>
+                  <pre>#{body}</pre>
+                  <p>View the full release notes at #{github_release_data["html_url"]}.</p>
                 </details>
               XML
             end