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>74 characters path dependency is hell of a drug.
by Avshalom 10y ago
>74 characters
path dependency is hell of a drug.
- quickben 10y agoPeople use VMs, print stuff on paper, have 10'' laptops, etc.
- merb 10y agoif you open a terminal window on mac with any kind of display 1080p, 4k whatever with any resolution you will still get a 80x24 terminal by default. Which is the whole purpose of `git log`. Using it on a terminal / ssh session / whatever.
- mamadrood 10y agoI use ~80 cols terminal because everything is designed to fit in 80 anyway. More than that and it's just whitespace.
- raimue 10y agoThe 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.
- marcosdumay 10y agoYour 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.
- raimue 10y agoUhm, 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.