Re: [PATCH 1/1] Tell vim the textwidth is 75.

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 22, 2005, 10:37 UTC
Message-ID: <tnx1x5ryvn2.fsf@arm.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v3bq71rmb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

> I do not do Porcelain, but wouldn't it be nicer if we had a
> Porcelain neutral "commit log template file" under $GIT_DIR
> somewhere?  'vim: textwidth=75' is completely useless for
> somebody like me (I almost always work inside Emacs).

StGIT uses .git/patchdescr.tmpl as the template, where people can put the a line like "STG: vim: textwidth=75" which will be automatically removed. I won't include this patch since it is up to the user to define whatever setting he/she wants for his editor (I use emacs myself and add something like "STG: -*- mode: text; -*-" on the first line)

> Cogito seems to use $GIT_DIR/commit-template for that purpose.
> Can't users put that "vim:" hint there, and if StGIT does not
> use a commit template, patch it to use the same file as Cogito
> does?

I would use a neutral commit template, only that it should have a neutral prefix as well for the lines to be removed (neither STG nor CG but GIT maybe). The $GIT_DIR/commit-template is fine as a file name.

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Catalin