On 06/24/2016 10:55 AM, Tim Graham wrote: > A few contributors indicated in #django-dev that it could be beneficial > to change our commit message format to match git's guidelines of present > tense (instead of our current past tense convention) as it would be one > less thing to remember when contributing to Django. Besides consistency > with the current history, do you feel there are any benefits in > continuing to use past tense instead of present tense?
I was one of those contributors in #django-dev. Not only are past-tense commit messages non-standard for git (meaning they are one more thing a new contributor is likely to trip over), I also personally find them harder to write and make clear. Sometimes in a commit message you need to reference past (pre-commit) behavior and make it clear how the commit changes that behavior. I occasionally find that harder to do clearly when the entire commit message is supposed to worded in the past tense. So I find all the advantages (except for consistency with past history) in favor of switching to the imperative mood. Carl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/576D6702.3080501%40oddbird.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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