Hi, On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Andy Lester wrote: > On Apr 24, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Jeff King wrote: > > >in git itself we usually use the imperative mood in commit mesages. > > This was what I was looking for. I think what I'll do is fold your > message into Documentation/SubmittingPatches and submit that as a patch > first. I dunno. The most important part of CodingGuidelines is this: As for more concrete guidelines, just imitate the existing code (this is a good guideline, no matter which project you are contributing to). (And of course, this holds for the style of commit messages, too.) Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html