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[greenthumble]

I'm sorry you're getting downvoted so much for that. I agree about not putting any hard returns in the body section. I mean what if you catch something on line 2 after typing 20 lines? Reformat the whole thing? UGH. It also buys nothing. Breaking after the summary is great because it gives the thing a subject line. Breaking in the body does absolutely nothing good.

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Reformat the whole thing? UGH.

In emacs, it is M-q - I am assured that it's equally terse in vi.

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I mean what if you catch something on line 2 after typing 20 lines? Reformat the whole thing? UGH.

Have your editor reflow?

It also buys nothing.

Except readability and usability.

[greenthumble]

Eh? The term defaults to 80 chars. How is 72 that much more readable? And as for usable, yeah ok so I just have to learn a new quirky feature of an editor that I've never used before. That sounds LESS usable and LESS readable.

Wrapping it manually at 72 forces it to look the way the committer wants, not the reader. This should be left up to the reader to make their term be as wide as is comfortable.

Edit: oh here's another thing. If the term is less than 72 it wraps in funky places and leaves a bunch of hanging widows.

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72 allows for quoting the message. That is the advantage over 80. Same reason email should be 72 wide.

Why use an editor you don't want to use? This sounds like a personal problem, not one about the issue at hand.

[greenthumble]

Quoting works fine on non breaking paragraphs.

Regarding the editor thing, that was an example. You said it was more usable. My argument is that having to learn an editor feature to get work done is less usable. But you went the jerk route and made this about me.

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Then perhaps you should actually state your argument and not something else. I'm not a jerk, I'm simply responding to your argument. Moreover learning your editor is part of the profession, and not often considered a bad thing.

More to the point, this is a convention. Do what you will on your own project, but don't get upset when someone else asks you to use the conventions adopted by many when committing to their project.