On Fri, Jun 24, 2016, Jon Dufresne <jon.dufre...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Carl Meyer <c...@oddbird.net> wrote:
>
>> To be clear, the recommended git style is not present tense, it is
>> imperative mood. So it should _not_ be "Fixes #12345 -- Regulates the
>> frobnicator", it should be "Fix #12345 -- Regulate the frobnicator."
>>
>
>Do you have a link to an authoritative source stating this as the
>recommended style or is it just common knowledge?
>
>I'm not arguing against the proposal (in fact, I agree with it), I'm just
>curious if there is documentation to support one style over the other.

Lately I keep being recommended <http://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/>.

The most compelling reason is that Git itself uses the imperative mood:

    Merge branch ...

    Revert ...

Daniele

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