Hello all,

we are using different styles for commit messages. It would be good to have
a short discussion on how we think they should be and agree all on how to
write the subject line.

Here are few points from me:
- Good commit messages are important to understand what happened in the
project and motivate to produce well thought through commits
- In git we have a subject line, first line in the commit message, should
be around 50 chars, GH cuts after 72 chars and knows this convention
- Subject line is usually written in imperative (git convention)
- Capitalize the first word (like in a new sentence)
- Commit message should contain the issue symbol

Open questions:
- Should the issue symbol be in the subject line? Or in the body?
- Everyone fine with writing subject line in imperative?

Here is an interesting article about it:
http://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/

Jörn

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