From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" 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 Message-ID: <20080308020026.GV8410@spearce.org> References: <1204832320-22800-1-git-send-email-ediap@users.sourceforge.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Adam =?utf-8?Q?Pi=C4=85tyszek?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Mar 08 03:01:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JXoNF-0007l5-GA for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:01:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753760AbYCHCAl (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 21:00:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760016AbYCHCAl (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 21:00:41 -0500 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:36545 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758084AbYCHCA3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 21:00:29 -0500 Received: from cpe-74-70-48-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([74.70.48.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JXoMC-0004Dr-HA; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:00:16 -0500 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8F55720FBAE; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 21:00:26 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1204832320-22800-1-git-send-email-ediap@users.sourceforge.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Adam Pityszek 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.