With the idea of saving characters in the first line, would "Fix #XXX: Message" be better than ""Fix #XXX -- Message" also? This saves two characters without any loss of readability as far as I see.
On Friday, June 24, 2016 at 4:44:10 PM UTC-4, Aymeric Augustin wrote: > > > On 24 Jun 2016, at 20:23, Carl Meyer <ca...@oddbird.net <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > The style that is most commonly recommended is described in the most > > detail (with reasoning) in these blog posts: > > > > http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html > > http://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/ > > Yes, let’s do that. > > Django is the only project I’m aware of that uses the past tense > convention. > Keeping doing it differently from everyone else is a sunk cost fallacy. > > Also every letter we save is a win when trying to fit in the hilariously > short > first line of every commit message. > > -- > Aymeric. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/942efbfd-70af-4ea0-bc13-2503e9085006%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
