Counterpoint from Linus Torvalds regarding wrapping text for git commit messages: [0] > Word-wrapping is a property of the text. And the tool you use to visual

Counterpoint from Linus Torvalds regarding wrapping text for git commit messages: [0] > Word-wrapping is a property of the text. And the tool you use to visualize things cannot know. End result: you do word-wrapping at the only stage where you can do it, namely when writing it. Not when showing it. > Some things should not be word-wrapped. They may be some kind of quoted text - long compiler error messages, oops reports, whatever. Things that have a certain specific format. > The tool displaying the thing can't know. The person writing the commit message can. End result: you'd better do word-wrapping at commit time, because that's the only time you know the difference. [0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-5661185 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56611... edit I realise there's some irony in the malformed '>' quotation notation I'm using here. The alternative would be to use a paragraph per line to force the HackerNews formatting to present each quoted line on its own line (i.e. its own paragraph) but that would leave nothing to indicate the end of each paragraph.