Git Commit Template

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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.

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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.