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I have searched twice now and explored heavily and I concede. I can't find a working answer, to a simple dang problem! :(

Problem

gitk comments on my Mac are not word wrapped and overflow off the screen

Example Illustration

The bottom left window has the commit message overflow out the window ('On add_nscoding: this...')

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Question

How do you enable word-wrap in the commit description & comment window on a Mac?

Potential Solution

'wrapcomment' is described of ~/.gitk here - http://marc.info/?l=git&m=114770603010712&w=2. But I could not find where this is!

J-Dizzle
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'wrapcomment' is described of ~/.gitk here - http://marc.info/?l=git&m=114770603010712&w=2. But I could not find where this is!

Find your gitk configuration file. On Linux, it can be at ~/.config/git/gitk or ~/.gitk. On Windows, it's at %USERPROFILE%/.gitk. I'm not sure where it would be on OS X, but probably along those lines.

This is a regular text file. There, change the line that starts with set wrapcomment to be set wrapcomment word. Save the file, restart gitk, and it should now word-wrap commit messages.

Vladimir Panteleev
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