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Re: Question about commit message wrapping

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 9, 2011, 13:41 UTC
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Sidney San Martín <s@sidneysm.com> writes:
> *Nothing else* in my everyday life works this way anymore. Line
> wrapping gets done on the display end in my email client, my web
> browser, my ebook reader entirely automatically, and it adapts to
> the size of the window.

The problem with automatic wrapping on the display is that there could be parts of commit message that *shouldn't* be wrapped, like code sample, or URL... and in plain text you don't have a way to separate flowed from non-flowed part.

Also with long non-breakable identifiers you sometimes need to wrap by hand (or use linebreaking algorithm from TeX) or go bit over the limit to make it look nice.

BTW. proper editor used to create commit message can wrap it for you ;-).

-- 
Jakub Narębski
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  1. Sidney San MartínDec 9, 2011
  2. Frans KlaverDec 9, 2011
  3. Frans KlaverDec 9, 2011
  4. Sidney San MartínDec 9, 2011
  5. Frans KlaverDec 9, 2011
  6. Sidney San MartínDec 9, 2011
  7. Andreas SchwabDec 10, 2011
  8. Jakub NarebskiDec 9, 2011
  9. Sidney San MartínDec 9, 2011
  10. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2011
  11. Andrew ArdillDec 11, 2011
  12. Frans KlaverDec 12, 2011
  13. Holger HellmuthDec 12, 2011
  14. Frans KlaverDec 12, 2011
  15. Michael HaggertyDec 13, 2011
  16. Frans KlaverDec 13, 2011
  17. Holger HellmuthDec 13, 2011
  18. Sidney San MartínDec 14, 2011
  19. Drew NorthupJan 1, 2012
  20. Sidney San MartínJan 26, 2012
  21. Sidney San MartínDec 14, 2011

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