Commit-message linebreaks

[Niko Sams]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 17:09, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> On Sunday 26 June 2011 16:54:35 David Nolden wrote:
>> @Niko: You've changed the commit-widget to not do automatic linebreaks.
>>
>> I find this very annoying, because I think that manual linebreaks are
>> something from the last century, I usually only put linebreaks to
>> separate paragraphs.
>>
>> So the question is: Is it really a _very_ common rule to do manual
>> linebreaks in commit messages?
>
> Imo: yes, it is. Esp. considering that the linebreak has a somewhat special
> meaning in GIT even, as the first line is supposed to be a short overview and
> the following paragraph should contain the fullblown description.
Creating a manual break should still possible with automatic line breaks.

Niko