Re: Wrap commit messages on `git commit -m`

From: Kevin <ikke@ikke.info>
Date: Nov 1, 2012, 21:52 UTC
Message-ID: <CAO54GHDRBDyQYvo-g_xEvsQJRgtfbbT-4-kop8hoSK1D37G44w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3a9v170ca.fsf@black.gullik.net>

As I see it, the problem is not the possibility to add new lines, but colleagues being too lazy to add them.

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Lars Gullik Bjønnes <larsbj@gullik.org> wrote:

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> Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
>
> | 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.
>
> git commit -m 'foo: fix this problem
>
> This problem is fixed by doing foo,
> bar and baz.
>
> Signed-off-by: me
> '
>
> works.
>
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