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org.eclipse.egit.ui_3.3.0.201312271828 Soft-wrap is broken in the Commit Message field in the Git Staging view and in the Commit dialog. I now get a horizontal scroll bar instead. The opposite of hard-wrapping is usually not single-line, but soft-wrapping. This still works fine in the History view.
This was changed by intention, see https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/20089/
> most viewers don't soft-wrap the commit message That's a strange motivation for breaking a feature that worked perfectly before. Why can't EGit be better than other viewers? And command-line users can just as well enable soft-wrap in their pager, e.g. by setting core.pager to "less -+S". I don't think no-wrap is often wanted (and that you didn't break the History view seems to confirm this). Reopening as an enhancement request to support soft-wrap (again).
It was requested here: http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/egit-dev/msg03372.html It looks like we need to add another preference for soft wrap in addition to the hard wrap preference. (By the way, the common practice in Git is to hard wrap commit messages.)
The common convention for Git comments is to hard wrap free-flowing text and let stuff that shouldn't wrap (stack traces, code samples, etc.) to go beyond the margin. There is a lot of in-depth discussion on various forums as to why that's the convention, but suffice it to say that it is the convention and previous EGit behavior was making it very difficult to follow it. A switch to turn on soft-wrap for those users who desire such behavior seems reasonable, but EGit should be configured to make it possible to follow the established convention out of the box.
Do we need a separate bug to do the same to the history view?
(In reply to Robin Stocker from comment #3) > It looks like we need to add another preference for soft wrap in addition to > the hard wrap preference. +1
