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

From
Lars Gullik Bjønnes <larsbj@gullik.org>
Date
Nov 1, 2012, 16:29 UTC
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<m3a9v170ca.fsf@black.gullik.net>
In-Reply-To
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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.
-- 
	Lgb
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Message 2 of 11 in “Wrap commit messages on `git commit -m`”
  1. Ramkumar RamachandraNov 1, 2012
  2. Lars Gullik BjønnesNov 1, 2012
  3. KevinNov 1, 2012
  4. Jonathan NiederNov 1, 2012
  5. Ramkumar RamachandraNov 2, 2012
  6. Jonathan NiederNov 3, 2012
  7. David AguilarNov 3, 2012
  8. Phil HordNov 3, 2012
  9. Tay Ray ChuanNov 4, 2012
  10. Thomas AdamNov 1, 2012
  11. James NylenNov 1, 2012

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