<div dir="ltr">While I agree that commits should be imperative when you are working on a project, If I pull in this commit it will do this. However in this case, I believe git is being used to keep a historical record. I would argue that historical records should be past tense. <div>
<br></div><div>Consistency is also important in my opinion and as you've pointed out some current messages don't translate to imperative cleanly. </div><div><br></div><div>But perhaps I am the only one with this mindset?<div>
<br></div><div>Paul</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:47 PM, George Angelopoulos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:george@usermod.net" target="_blank">george@usermod.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yes, in certain cases, present tense wouldn't make any sense. For example:<br>
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"Edit password for foo using vim."<br>
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lolwut?<br>
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On 04/23/2014 07:43 PM, Paul Schwendenman wrote:<br>
> I thought because the tool was making the commits it made more sense<br>
> to have them be past tense.<br>
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> Paul<br>
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> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <<a href="mailto:Jason@zx2c4.com">Jason@zx2c4.com</a><br>
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> Good point. I guess I just have a different hat on when writing<br>
> code (to make commits) versus actually making commits. I agree<br>
> present tense makes more sense. Send a patch cleaning that up, and<br>
> I'll merge it?<br>
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