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The line length of many sections grow quite long as newline is seldomly used. This is no problem in some editors, which wrap the text to fit the window (github, as an example), but it is difficult in other editors that do not wrap. In this case, it is not a great user experience and it can also be difficult for git to display in a good way what has actually changed within one or more lines.
Consider the following git diff on my ongoing PR. The first two changes (licence -> license) are quite apparent, but the rest of the sections are less apparent what has actually changed, as it becomes part of big text sections:
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
The line length of many sections grow quite long as newline is seldomly used. This is no problem in some editors, which wrap the text to fit the window (github, as an example), but it is difficult in other editors that do not wrap. In this case, it is not a great user experience and it can also be difficult for git to display in a good way what has actually changed within one or more lines.
Gitlab wrote a blog post about this: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/10/11/wrapping-text/
Consider the following git diff on my ongoing PR. The first two changes (licence -> license) are quite apparent, but the rest of the sections are less apparent what has actually changed, as it becomes part of big text sections:
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: