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Change position of commit message length indicator

With the update from PhpStorm 2016.3 to 2017.1 came an improved committing interface, and a handy indicator to show how long the message is. The only issue is that I cannot find a way to change the default position, which is after the 72nd character.

phpstorm commit message input

I'd like to know if there's any way to change the indicator's position to accommodate the the more conventional 50 or GitHub's 69 character limit.

Solution

  • With the update from PhpStorm 2016.3 to 2017.1 came an improved committing interface, and a handy indicator to show how long the message is.

    Cannot say anything about interface improvements ... but message length indicator is available for quite some time now (e.g. this ticket was answered over 1 year ago).

    In any case:

    Settings/Preferences | Version Control --> Commit message right margin (columns)

    Screenshot is from 2016.3.3

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    The only difference is that in 2017.1 this option is enabled even though my settings were imported from 2016.3 where it's disabled.