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Discussion on: Any rules, tips and tricks for commit message

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The best tool ever to create a neutral and understandable commit message is this sentence: "If you apply this commit to your code, it will [this part becomes the commit title]".

I try to keep the title length below 74 characters, and try to remove words like "the" from it. Then a blank line, then the commit body in one paragraph, no line breaks, describing in better detail what and why the commit. Then the Jira issue ID on the last line.