From: Holger Hellmuth <hellmuth@ira•uka.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: "Sidney San Martín" <s@sidneysm•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support wrapping commit messages when you read them
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:10:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F3A4F53.9030302@ira.uka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vzkcmbcbq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On 13.02.2012 23:25, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Computers are good at automating" is true, and that is why real editors
> give an easy way to auto-wrap long prose in a paragraph while composing.
> But "computers are good at automating" is not a convincing justification
> to let the composer leave unreasonably long lines in the commit log object
> and force the reader side to line-wrap the mess only to fix it up.
Maybe this is more convincing: Only the reader side knows the
line-length of the display or window.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-14 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-25 5:05 [PATCH] Support wrapping commit messages when you read them Sidney San Martín
2011-12-25 9:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-13 21:26 ` Sidney San Martín
2012-02-13 22:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-14 12:10 ` Holger Hellmuth [this message]
2012-02-20 21:09 ` Sidney San Martín
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