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Re:Git Tips by nerdponx on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @04:00AM (#11532909)
Capitalizing the subject line makes commit logs much easier to read in my opinion. There's a reason we capitalize letters at the beginning of sentences
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Re:Git Tips by Grue3 on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @08:14AM (#11533783)
But it's not the beginning of a sentence. It's supposed to be a continuation of the implicit phrase "When applied this commit will ..." In which case capitalizing makes no sense.
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Re:Git Tips by rlpb on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @08:56AM (#11533979)
> It's supposed to be a continuation of the implicit phrase "When applied this commit will ..."

No: it's supposed to be written in imperative form. For those of us who are not linguists, it's easiest to explain this as a continuation of that phrase. However, it isn't a continuation. It stands on its own.

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