Hi Birger,
On 06/09/2019 15:08, Birger Skogeng Pedersen wrote:
Hi Bert,
We should probably distinguish between what is wrapped in git-gui
(i.e. purely visual), and what is actually wrapped in the commit
message.
I believe the former is referred to as "soft wrap", while the latter
is "hard wrap".
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 7:46 PM Bert Wesarg <bert.wes...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Please exclude the first line, i.e., the subject. This should not be
wrapped at all.
I think all lines should be soft wrapped. Scrolling sideways is just
not something I'd want to do in the gui.
How about we soft wrap all lines (in gui). But when the commit is
created, the actual hard wrap (newline characters) happens only on
lines other than the first one?
Not sure if I parsed this correctly, but I'd want a WYSIWYG approach
that if we wrap on the display it will be wrapped (newline char) in the
commit. It sounded as if you were proposing a soft wrap visually, but
not doing the same for the commit.
Personally, I've had both feelings with the gui. I like that the 'hard'
visual char limit is there that encourages me to wrap my messages.
But at the same time if I'm typing on a flow then it's annoying that
there wasn't any auto wrap.
The other problem is if one is amending a commit and I need to add a few
word mid paragraph, the manual re-flowing and manual wrapping can be
annoying.
I suspect there is a moderately happy medium between the two, perhaps
with an autowrap key (per paragraph) being available.
I also had it in my head that some parts of Git do allow more than a
single line headers, or at least can cope with a run-on second line
before the blank line that flags the start of the message proper. (I may
be wrong...)
But then again, the user might get frustrated when the resulting
commit message looks different than what it appeared in git-gui.
Honestly I'd prefer just wrap the first line as well. If the user gets
frustrated that the first line gets wrapped there are two options:
- Refrain from writing such a long line
- Disable word wrapping (it should be configurable, like you said)
Configurable wrapping point - yes, would be nice (a feeling of control,
that I'd probably never change ;-).
Thoughts?
Birger
Philip
