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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
by raimue 10y ago
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.
- 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.