From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:00:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Add option for changing the width of the commit message text box
Message-ID: <20080308020026.GV8410@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <1204832320-22800-1-git-send-email-ediap@users.sourceforge.net>

Adam Pityszek <ediap@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> The width of the commit message text area is currently hard-coded
> to 75 characters. This value might be not optimal for some projects.
> For instance users who would like to generate GNU-style ChangeLog
> file from git commit message might prefer commit messages of width
> no longer than 70 characters.
> 
> This patch adds a global and per repository option "Commit Message
> Text Width", which could be used to change the width of the commit
> message text area.

Thanks.
 
> Ideally, I would like to have an automated line wrapping in the commit
> message text area. Unfortunately the "-wrap words" switch only wraps the
> lines for displaying purposes and this has no effect on the committed message
> itself.
 
Yea, I fought with that myself for a while and just settled on
a 75 character wide text area.

-- 
Shawn.