Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > (BTW, on this list we pronounce "the name of the commit" as "the > commit subject (line)".) Yup. "subject" probably comes from the fact that the title (the first paragraph, folded into a single line) of the commit is used on the "Subject:" header when formatted for e-mail submission, and also 's' in "git log --pretty='%s'" is described as "subject" in the documentation. Other words I've seen used are "commit title" and "oneline description", but "subject" would be the most common, I suspect. "commit name" on the other hand brings a different concept, i.e., "the commit object name", more strongly to readers' minds, and can be mistaken as what you'd get in "git log --pretty='%H'".
