Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

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> Hmm, I don't really know if it's more evil to split an extra-long line
> to two or keep it longer than the maximum sane width.

The evil already happened several times in git's repository ;-).

$ git log --all --pretty=oneline | grep \
 ' ................................................................................' \
 | wc -l
81
$

When I encounter such long line, I often just don't care, since my
terminal or tool (gitk ...) is often more than 80 char. And in the
cases I care, the fix is just to enlarge the window or to scroll (only
people using a text-mode console would _really_ be disturbed).

With the other solution (breaking the line automatically), I have no
easy fix. In gitk, I have the beginning of a sentence in the summary
field, in a mailed patched, I have the sentence split between the
Subject: header and the body.

(but we agree that both cases are evil. Perhaps just "ERROR: you're
doing evil" would be better ...)

-- 
Matthieu
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