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Re: [PATCH] git gui: visually wrap lines of commit message

From
Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Date
Aug 9, 2008, 22:14 UTC
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<200808100014.13408.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
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<20080809220637.GA20963@localhost>
On Sonntag, 10. August 2008, Clemens Buchacher wrote:
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> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 11:44:33PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Clemens Buchacher wrote:
> > > Visually wrap lines in the commit message text box. That way we can
> > > avoid a horizontal scroll bar (which was not available anyways).
> > >
> > > Note: This does _not_ break lines in the actual commit message.
> >
> > Please don't do that. I want to get what I see.
>
> Currently you don't see the whole message anyways if the box is too small
> for the text. I find that quite annoying, especially since there are
> neither keys nor a scrollbar to scroll horizontally.

In this case, I use the middle mouse button to pan around. And then I do see what I will get.

The width of the box was chosen wisely: It takes a bit less than 80 columns, to leave room for quoting in emails and to avoid wrapping of git log output.

-- Hannes
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  1. git gui: visually wrap lines of commit messageClemens Buchacher, Aug 9, 2008
  2. Johannes SixtAug 9, 2008
  3. Clemens BuchacherAug 9, 2008
  4. Johannes SixtAug 9, 2008
  5. Clemens BuchacherAug 9, 2008
  6. Shawn O. PearceAug 10, 2008
  7. Lars NoschinskiAug 10, 2008
  8. Shawn O. PearceAug 10, 2008
  9. Clemens BuchacherAug 10, 2008

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