Re: [PATCH] format-patch: set diffstat width to 70 instead of default 80

[Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 6:52 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 07:31:54PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
>
>> Patches or cover letters generated by format-patch are meant to be
>> exchanged as emails, most of the time. And since it's generally agreed
>> that text in mails should be wrapped around 70 columns or so, make sure
>> these diffstat follow the convention.
>>
>> I noticed this when I quoted a diffstat line [1]. Should we do something
>> like this? diffstat is rarely quoted though so perhaps the stat width
>> should be something like 75.
>
> I think the general idea is sensible. Somewhere I picked up "72" as the
> right size for email lines to accommodate quoting, but I'm pretty sure
> you could justify any number between 70 and 75. :)

I think it's easy to settle on 72 because cover letter's shortlog
already wraps at 72 columns. No point in introducing another number
here.

> PS I had a funny feeling that this had come up before not due to
>    quoting, but just due to people with enormous terminals generating
>    too-long lines. But I couldn't find any discussion, and my
>    (admittedly brief) reading of the code is that we'd actually respect
>    the terminal size by default.

Yeah, there are tests to check that we do ignore terminal size too.
-- 
Duy