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Discussion on: Patterns for writing better git commit messages

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perpetual . education

We like to think:

"Derek was trying to ____________________________."

But our projects are green-field and not toooo crazy.

add the user-card component
adjust loud-voice clamp
add padding to the page-header component

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Helder Burato Berto

Thanks for the reply and I really enjoy this pattern you talked about.

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sheriffderek • Edited

My name is Derek - and I approve this git message. hahaha

I think we started doing this because / well, we just wanted to be consistent. So - we read somewhere that people use "imperative voice" or something...

But it wouldn't be the first time we decided to do something a certain way and then changed it... so, always looking for "THE BEST" way. ha! Always trying to improve... but we can lazy-load it.

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jacekgajek

I've created an account to give a like. This comment gave a good laugh; when I read it I initially though that the pattern is literally "Derek was trying to ____________________________."... if you know what I mean. ;)

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perpetual . education

Like he couldn't think of anything?

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jacekgajek

...but did something regardless.

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perpetual . education

hahaha

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Helder Burato Berto

I have the same feeling here when I read the first time. hahaha