From: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 17:46:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-gui: warn if the commit message contains lines longer than the set limit
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On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 8:50 AM Birger Skogeng Pedersen
<birger.sp@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 12:48 AM Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com> wrote:
> > I'll chime in with what I think would be a great solution: auto word
> > wrapping. This way, the users can set the text width, and not have to
> > worry about manually formatting it. Long "words" like URLs would still
> > get to be on one line, and we avoid showing annoying dialogs.
>
> +1. IMO git-gui really needs automatic word wrapping for the commit messages.

Please exclude the first line, i.e., the subject. This should not be
wrapped at all.

I also imagine, that we should make it configurable, I'm unsure if I
would use this feature for my self.

Bert

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> Birger