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> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:55:17 -0800
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Maybe it would make sense to start encouraging some more standardized
> format for the first line of commit messages?

If you can come up with a format that can be reliably used in all
cases, yes.  But I very much doubt you'd be able to do that.  The
first line is just one line, and it must be short enough.  It is easy
to write something short there, but not if the description is
complicated.