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Subject: Re: [PATCH] git gui: visually wrap lines of commit message
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* Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> [08-08-10 04:25]:
>> Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but on my system (wish8.5) the box width
>> changes with the window size, and gui.commitmsgwidth appears to be ignored.
>> Even if I close and restart git gui, the old window size is kept.
>
>That's a bug, and I now understand why you have a problem.  That box
>should not be resizing itself.  Its supposed to be using a fixed
>width font, and have a fixed number of columns, so you can format
>a message including drawing ASCII art to explain yourself clearly
>as you write a change.

The box always resizes, unless the window is wide enough. But I do not
see a good way to fix that.