On Sat, 2020-05-30 at 16:14 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:

On May 29, 2020, at 5:12 PM, Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Change the maximum allowed line length to 100 from 80.

What is the benefit/motivation for changing this?  The vast majority
of files are wrapped at 80 columns, and if some files start being
wrapped at 100 columns they will either display poorly on 80-column
terminals, or a lot of dead space will show in 100-column terminals.

YA Linus bleat in this thread.
I don't much care one way or any other.

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and

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