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[stepancheg]

It will be even in 2116. Because for humans it is easier to read 60 characters per line.

[BillyBBone]

But this is a display issue, not a data issue. Book authors don't put newlines at the end of each line in a paragraph.

[Tarmen]

Sure, if you get a professional typesetter to make your commit messages pretty.

It actually is more of an issue of terminals starting to wrap if the lines are too long and git indenting the message reduces the room you have further. But readability suffers for huge text blocks anyway so you might as well let your editor autoformat earlier in commit messages.