From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: "Adam Piątyszek" <ediap@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Add option for changing the width of the commit message text box
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 21:00:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080308020026.GV8410@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204832320-22800-1-git-send-email-ediap@users.sourceforge.net>
Adam Pityszek <ediap@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> The width of the commit message text area is currently hard-coded
> to 75 characters. This value might be not optimal for some projects.
> For instance users who would like to generate GNU-style ChangeLog
> file from git commit message might prefer commit messages of width
> no longer than 70 characters.
>
> This patch adds a global and per repository option "Commit Message
> Text Width", which could be used to change the width of the commit
> message text area.
Thanks.
> Ideally, I would like to have an automated line wrapping in the commit
> message text area. Unfortunately the "-wrap words" switch only wraps the
> lines for displaying purposes and this has no effect on the committed message
> itself.
Yea, I fought with that myself for a while and just settled on
a 75 character wide text area.
--
Shawn.
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2008-03-06 19:38 [PATCH] git-gui: Add option for changing the width of the commit message text box Adam Piątyszek
2008-03-08 2:00 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
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