> Most of the standard tools which come with the version control system itself will display the message as plain text, without even re-wrapping the lines. > Th

> Most of the standard tools which come with the version control system itself will display the message as plain text, without even re-wrapping the lines. > Therefore, write your message so that it’s still readable in that form. Therefore you should use better tools and push for improvements in the standard instead of wasting time worrying about such text luxuries as line wrapping The thing is, one-way improvement is possible by using better tools, but if you force wrapping with newlines than good tools won't be able to fix it