From: James Nylen Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:10:08 GMT Subject: Re: Wrap commit messages on `git commit -m` Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Thomas Adam wrote: > Hi, > > On 1 November 2012 16:07, Ramkumar Ramachandra 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)": > I think he's talking about git-commit wrapping the message as it is being committed, instead of git-log doing the wrapping as it is being displayed. I personally would rather see git-commit refuse to accept messages wider than 72 characters.