From: Holger Hellmuth <hellmuth@ira.uka.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:10:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support wrapping commit messages when you read them
Message-ID: <4F3A4F53.9030302@ira.uka.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vzkcmbcbq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 13.02.2012 23:25, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Computers are good at automating" is true, and that is why real editors
> give an easy way to auto-wrap long prose in a paragraph while composing.
> But "computers are good at automating" is not a convincing justification
> to let the composer leave unreasonably long lines in the commit log object
> and force the reader side to line-wrap the mess only to fix it up.

Maybe this is more convincing: Only the reader side knows the 
line-length of the display or window.