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Re:What a good commit message looks like (2011) by raimue on Thursday January 26, 2017 @12:24PM (#13493239)
The reason for this is that Git patches are meant to be exchanged over email. Historically email has a line limitation of 80 characters. You are supposed to use less than that to allow insertion of quoting characters in the first columns in replies.
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Re:What a good commit message looks like (2011) by marcosdumay on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:01PM (#13493597)
Your email client is supposed to fix this restriction in a completely transparent way. There are a few standards for that, and you can bet every client supports all of them.
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Re:What a good commit message looks like (2011) by raimue on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:15PM (#13493738)
Uhm, no, that is not the reality we live in. Things like format=flowed exist, but I would not say that "all" clients support that. For example Apple Mail lately got an obsession for quoted printable encoding with very long lines.
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