If anyone's put off by the hectoring tone of the imperative mood, it might
be better to think of it as the indicative mood. That is:
(This will) "add password validation to prevent the usage of...".
rather than
(You must) "add password validation to prevent the usage of..."!
In English
Reinout, I agree that the imperative mood seems awkward, especially when
reading history, but of course I'm influenced by my experience with
Django's history. No doubt others find it more natural. I guess if I had my
way, we would keep using past tense, although I will say that it gets a bit
On Saturday 25 June 2016 00:04:30 Tim Graham wrote:
> With the idea of saving characters in the first line, would "Fix #XXX:
> Message" be better than ""Fix #XXX -- Message" also? This saves two
> characters without any loss of readability as far as I see.
>
Is there a real reason for caring
On Friday 24 June 2016 14:49:54 Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>
> Did my answer clear your doubts?
>
It moves my opinion of the feature from -0.5 "are we sure we need this" to -0
"I won't stand in your way".
Shai.
Op 24-06-16 om 19:48 schreef Carl Meyer:
To be clear, the recommended git style is not present tense, it is
imperative mood. So it should _not_ be "Fixes #12345 -- Regulates the
frobnicator", it should be "Fix #12345 -- Regulate the frobnicator."
Everybody seems to be in favour. I'll allow
