Re: Question about commit message wrapping

[Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Sunday, December 11, 2011, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
...

> Additional and the more serious problem with wrapping on output is
> related to backward compatibility.  If you have commit message that is
> wrapped e.g. to 80 characters, and you wrap on output to 72 characters,
> you would get ugly and nigh unreadable ragged output

For what it's worth, I do a lot of reading emails on my phone, which
force wraps line-length to the width of the display (not a set number
of characters).
This is always less than 80.

Emails on this list are almost exclusively sent pre-wrapped to 80
character line lengths.
The result is exactly the kind of ragged output you used in your
example. Changing this behaviour may break backwards compatibility,
but it is already broken for 'future' compatibility.

Regards,

Andrew Ardill