(2012)

70 comments of past discussion, flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26364697

9 further comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35073974

Is some kind of smear campaign against Torvalds going on? For some reason I’ve been seeing a lot of this old stuff make the rounds. This one is actually quite harsh (the “moron” bit) and I don’t particularly agree with the hard-wrapping, but I detest the indignation and moral panic that invariably follows… I also detested it back then, but it’s especially disgusting now that he’s mellowed out a bit.

I can agree that Github is not particularly great for someone used to the original git pull requests, but I'm intrigued by this note:

> no sane word-wrap of the long description you type: github commit > messages tend to be (if they have any description at all) one long > unreadable line.

Why does word wrapping need to be a concern of those writing the message rather than the software showing it to the reader? I generally find them to be too short on big screens while being too big for small phone screens. They are also a pain to write manually if you ever have to go back and perform a substantial edit in the middle of a paragraph; one could argue your editor could help you with that, but if I need a software to do this anyway why can't that be used on the viewer side, where they can also customize settings as they see fit without annoying other people?