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

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Daniel O. • Edited

Here is a small statistic based on the Github commit messages:

Fix: 25M
Fixed: 12M
Fixing: 22M
Fixes: 23M

Add: 25M
Added: 22M
Adding: 19M

Update: 18M
Updated: 14M
Updating: 18M

Remove: 25M
Removed: 18M
Removing: 18M
Removal: 7M

Delete: 7M
Deleted: 8M
Deleting: 9M

We can see that the imperative is used a little more than the past tense.

Personally, I use past tense because it sounds more polite.