Re: [PATCH] git-commit: Reformat log messages provided on commandline

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

The evil already happened several times in git's repository ;-).

$ git log --all --pretty=oneline | grep \
 ' ................................................................................' \
 | wc -l
81
$

When I encounter such long line, I often just don't care, since my terminal or tool (gitk ...) is often more than 80 char. And in the cases I care, the fix is just to enlarge the window or to scroll (only people using a text-mode console would _really_ be disturbed).

With the other solution (breaking the line automatically), I have no
easy fix. In gitk, I have the beginning of a sentence in the summary
field, in a mailed patched, I have the sentence split between the
Subject: header and the body.

(but we agree that both cases are evil. Perhaps just "ERROR: you're doing evil" would be better ...)