On Tue, 2020-04-28 at 00:31 -0400, Patrick Palka via Gcc-patches wrote:
> The bundled vimrc script, when enabled, currently sets the text width to
> 80 characters for all files within the source directory. Unfortunately
> this means the setting also applies when editing .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG,
> overriding the default and standard text width of 72 for Git commit
> messages. (A text width of 80 is too much for commit messages because
> Git indents commit messages by four spaces when displaying them via e.g.
> git log, leading to a total displayed width of 84 characters.)
>
> This patch explicitly sets the text width of Git commit messages to 72
> characters in accordance with standard practice. (Alternatively we
> could avoid setting textwidth at all in this case and let the defaults
> kick in, but maybe it's better to be explicit?)
>
> Tested by writing up this commit message :) Is this OK to commit?
>
> contrib/ChangeLog:
>
> * vimrc: Reduce textwidth to 72 for Git commit messages.
OK
jeff
