I have the same problem but I decided that first summary line is ok to be a little long. I regularly have my summaries be about 100 to 120 chars long. My ration

I have the same problem but I decided that first summary line is ok to be a little long. I regularly have my summaries be about 100 to 120 chars long. My rationale is that you aren't reading a paragraph, just a single line in isolation. For me, the hard part about reading long lines is jumping from the end of one to the beginning of the next. When the entire paragraph is on one line that problem just does not exist. Plus I always give a 1 line blank before the body of the commit so there's less visual confusion.