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Discussion on: What tense do you use in Git Commit messages?

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Darío Kondratiuk

I love these guidelines chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/

”A properly formed Git commit subject line should always be able to complete the following sentence:

If applied, this commit will your subject line here
For example:

If applied, this commit will refactor subsystem X for readability”

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Beeblebrox

Meaning imperative instead of present or past tense