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Re:A Note About Git Commit Messages by notJim on Friday January 07, 2011 @01:18PM (#2080441)
Don't you mean:

  > Exactly. That's why you write it to the lowest common denominator, so
  > that everyone can use it well.
Reads great!
Re:A Note About Git Commit Messages by steveklabnik on Friday January 07, 2011 @01:51PM (#2080604)
I didn't say that all text ever should always be 72 columns in length. A git commit message and a Hacker News comment are used in completely different ways.

Also, I probably would have moved the ', so' to the next line, so that it reads a bit better.