Write your commit message in the imperative: "Fix bug" and not "Fixed bug" or "Fixes bug." This convention matches up with commit messages generated by commands like git merge and git revert.
Re:Atom – Git commit messages
by philh on Monday January 12, 2015 @12:25PM
(#8875074)
That mostly just passes the buck to why do merge and revert use the imperative? Simply being consistent with them doesn't seem like a very strong argument.
Write your commit message in the imperative: "Fix bug" and not "Fixed bug" or "Fixes bug." This convention matches up with commit messages generated by commands like git merge and git revert.