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Re:How to Write a Git Commit Message (2014) by milesrout on Friday March 17, 2017 @09:02PM (#13899295)
The text box and the text output are the same thing: markdown. A little tickbox that just wrapped every message I send in a <pre> tag would be lovely.
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Re:How to Write a Git Commit Message (2014) by scrollaway on Saturday March 18, 2017 @09:34AM (#13901153)
You're missing my point because you don't understand the meaning I'm going for here. The comment box is not markdown, it's plaintext. This is not a rich text WYSIWYG editor.

My original point is that plenty of software does plaintext wrapping just fine and it's pretty ridiculous that consoles are stuck in this 80 character mindset.

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Re:How to Write a Git Commit Message (2014) by milesrout on Saturday March 18, 2017 @08:48PM (#13904438)
No you're missing the point. A computer cannot wrap text reliably. It does not know how to.
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