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git-gui: Long lines in commit message gets hidden, no scrollbar appears

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Birger Skogeng Pedersen <birger.sp@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 2, 2019, 09:11 UTC
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Hi,

I just noticed that long lines in the commit message widget does in fact not show a horizontal scrollbar. So if a line in the commit message is more than 75 characters, it gets a bit confusing. Should it not have a scrollbar? Example shown here: https://i.imgur.com/I3d6nBJ.png

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