On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 17:22 -0400, David Miller wrote: > 3) "Fix broken RX checksums." Commit header lines and commit > messages are proper English, therefore sentences should > begin with a capitalized letter and end with a period.
Commit messages should be proper English. But commit header lines should not end with a period. The vast majority doesn't. Yes, I've just checked. How many newspaper headlines end with a period? Thanks, Paul Bolle