My only complaint is, I write long commit messages, since the commit messages ar...

jherdman · on June 19, 2012

Git best practices say the first line in your commit message should be no more than 50 characters. Subsequent lines should be wrapped at 80 characters. See http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa...

sathishmanohar · on June 20, 2012

I've been using multiple lines in my log messages, but didn't know about second blank line.

I tried as per pilgrim689's comment, Now everything is fine with --oneline argument.

Thanks.

pilgrim689 · on June 19, 2012

Long commit messages are good, but if you want them to display nicely in short logs, enter them the way git and linux kernel commit messages do:

then `git log --oneline` displays the 1-liners perfectly.