Write good git commit messages

Re:Write good git commit messages by Double_a_92 on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @07:34AM (#18663347)

Past tense doesn't describe what the commit does, it describes what the developer did.

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Re:Write good git commit messages by rocqua on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @07:56AM (#18663468)

This.

The point of an imperative present tense voice is to consider the message from the point of the commit, not from the point of the committer.

Commit messages aren't meant to show you did work, they aren't meant to show what work you did either. They are meant to show what changed.

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Re:Write good git commit messages by syn0byte on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @09:59AM (#18664420)

You mean "what changes." Consistency dammit!

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