> Why do that if our clients could do it nicely, based on screen size, preference and everything? Because there are some thing that shouldn't be soft-wrapped.

> Why do that if our clients could do it nicely, based on screen size, preference and everything? Because there are some thing that shouldn't be soft-wrapped. Like code snippets, diffs, formatted output, etc. It's far easier to let the person who write the commit message to decide where to wrap it rather than relying on the recipient's display to do it for them. Linus Torvalds describes the same issue here [1]. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-5660604 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56606....