Sure, but how would you format your message so the lines aren't longer than 80 chars? I guess you can edit the command to read from STDIN, but that sounds much more cumbersome than passing -e:
> Sure, but how would you format your message so the lines aren't longer than 80 chars?
Put linebreaks and fill-paragraph for the later lines? You can put linebreaks in quoted shell strings, so once it's in an editor buffer there's no issue with that.
> I guess you can edit the command to read from STDIN
The use case here is "I've already started writing a commit message inline, I now realise I need more room, I don't want to bother copy/pasting stuff around".
If I know from the start that I will need more than just a shortdesc, I'll obviously be crafting the message in my editor in the first place.
