Git Commit Messages: 50/72 Formatting

Question

Tim Pope argues for a particular Git commit message style in his blog post: http://www.tpope.net/node/106.

Here is a quick summary of what he recommends:

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Answer 1

Regarding “thought leaders”: Linus emphatically advocates line wrapping for the full commit message:

[…] we use 72-character columns for word-wrapping, except for quoted material that has a specific line format.

The exceptions refers mainly to “non-prose” text, that is, text that was not typed by a human for the commit — for example, compiler error messages.