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

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Dustin King

Imperative. I don't know why, but I picked it up as the norm at some point.

This is a retroactive justification, but it seems natural to read each commit as though it's happening right now, or that the commit headline is the instruction and the code changes are carrying it out.