From: Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:12:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Wrap commit messages on `git commit -m`
Message-ID: <CA+39Oz7iuSPh2DqQFoO9o+V3TouMUy8T00KgXEP0vY758=S5gA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0kQ+qCsOa87yY4wma279mp+9h+LFv3qCP_qrNdDyGNcsQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On 1 November 2012 16:07, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Some of my colleagues are lazy to fire up an editor and write proper
> commit messages- they often write one-liners using `git commit -m`.
> However, that line turns out to be longer than 72 characters, and the
> resulting `git log` output is ugly.  So, I was wondering if it would
> be a good idea to wrap these one-liners to 72 characters
> automatically.

Can't you do this already?  From "git-log(1)":

 %w([<w>[,<i1>[,<i2>]]]): switch line wrapping, like the -w
option of git-shortlog(1).

-- Thomas Adam