The usual default is 80, which should fit in the terminals
of most users. However, it is usually considered polite to
keep email lines to 72 characters to accomodate a few layers
of quoting.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted>
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On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:14:18AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
format-patch already defaults to "--stat --summary -p" if you give it
no format options. The default stat is 80, I believe; for format-patch
it should probably be bumped to 72 anyway.
This should be totally harmless and maint-worthy, I would think.
builtin-log.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-log.c b/builtin-log.c
index 5c00725..8d7b975 100644
--- a/builtin-log.c
+++ b/builtin-log.c
@@ -771,6 +771,7 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
rev.ignore_merges = 1;
rev.diffopt.msg_sep = "";
DIFF_OPT_SET(&rev.diffopt, RECURSIVE);
+ rev.diffopt.stat_width = 72;
rev.subject_prefix = fmt_patch_subject_prefix;
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1.5.5.rc2.171.g7962.dirty