TIL: Linux Commit Messages
Communicating changes.
The Linux patch submission process has a nice guide (via) on crafting git commit messages:
Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. “make xyzzy do frotz” instead of “[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz” or “[I] changed xyzzy to do frotz”, as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change its behaviour.