From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Holger Hellmuth Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support wrapping commit messages when you read them Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:10:59 +0100 Message-ID: <4F3A4F53.9030302@ira.uka.de> References: <8DE6E894-B50D-4F7E-AE18-C10E7E40A550@sidneysm.com> <7vfwg99dom.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <46957CEB-5E48-4C11-8428-9A88C3810548@sidneysm.com> <7vzkcmbcbq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: =?UTF-8?B?U2lkbmV5IFNhbiBNYXJ0w61u?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 14 13:10:32 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RxHDL-0006RP-1P for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:10:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754985Ab2BNMK0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:10:26 -0500 Received: from iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de ([141.3.10.81]:54694 "EHLO iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753315Ab2BNMKZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:10:25 -0500 Received: from irams1.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de ([141.3.10.5]) by iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtps port 25 id 1RxHD5-0005TL-9J; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:10:22 +0100 Received: from i20s141.iaks.uni-karlsruhe.de ([141.3.32.141] helo=[172.16.22.120]) by irams1.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtpsa port 25 id 1RxHD3-00008M-L2; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:10:13 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111101 SUSE/3.1.16 Thunderbird/3.1.16 In-Reply-To: <7vzkcmbcbq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> X-ATIS-AV: ClamAV (irams1.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de) X-ATIS-AV: ClamAV (iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de) X-ATIS-AV: Kaspersky (iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de) X-ATIS-Timestamp: iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de 1329221422.516090000 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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.