Long lines in literal blocks run off the edge of the page

[dstansby]

e.g.

I assume the fix is to make the box scrollable, which would probably be an upstream fix.

[tacaswell]

might also be in the templates..

[NelleV]

I don't think the appropriate fix is to add a scrollbar: this line should never have been that long in the first place.

[anntzer]

Why not? This is the output of git lg as defined in the docs.

[NelleV]

The subject line of a git commit should be less than 50 caracters, while the body should be wrapped into 72 caracters line.

Even if you don't consider this, scrollbars are terrible UI designs.

[NelleV]

(I find the guidelines on writing git commit messages very stringent, and often don't follow them myself, but there is a difference between writing 80 caraters line, and a full paragraph in the title. These are bad practices, and we should not advertise them in our documentation.)

[anntzer]

The output of git lg can still overrun the limit (due to the SHA1 and branch name being prepended), but I agree with you that this specific piece is a bad example.