Re: Wrap commit messages on `git commit -m`

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Lars Gullik Bjønnes [off-list ref] wrote:

Ramkumar Ramachandra [off-list ref] writes:

| Hi,

quoted

| Some of my colleagues are lazy to fire up an editor and write proper
| commit messages- they often write one-liners using `git commit -m`.
| However, that line turns out to be longer than 72 characters, and the
| resulting `git log` output is ugly.  So, I was wondering if it would
| be a good idea to wrap these one-liners to 72 characters
| automatically.

git commit -m 'foo: fix this problem

This problem is fixed by doing foo,
bar and baz.

Signed-off-by: me
'

works.

Perhaps a deeper issue is that the implicit email format
(subject-body) for commit messages, is, well, implicit. New users of
git who type git-commit -m '...' isn't going to know that those few
characters will all be lumped on a "subject" line, forever screwing
themselves when they review the output of git-log, git-rebase
--interactive, etc. (can't remember off the top of my head if
git-format-patch would chop off long subjects and move it to the
body), which may be a significant period of time (and thus commits)
later.

While I don't have any ideas on how to improve on this, hopefully this
gets recognized as an issue in the first place.

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan