Re: Your commit 7409a79

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Ok. I often switch tenses halfway thru, and then get annoyed when I
>> realize that. Having a standard will help.
>
> The use of the present tens is stated in the GNU Coding standard.

Hmm. Not in section 6.8 Change Logs or 5.2 Commenting Your Work; I've
read those carefully. The word "tense" does not appear in the rest of
the manual (searched both the single html and ascii versions).

Can you point to a more precise reference?


5.2 does say "write complete sentences and capitalize the first word",
so we can reference that if we want it to apply to commit messages.

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-- Stephe