another rule about commit messages I find useful, esp if you have a multi-national team or a random revolving pool of remote contractors, is to require that the

another rule about commit messages I find useful, esp if you have a multi-national team or a random revolving pool of remote contractors, is to require that they always be in English. Along with code comments and docs. i also sometime like to see a prefix indicating area like "GUI: blah" or "zfs: blah" so you can quickly categorize or get a sense for what area or subsystem was touched, if just looking at the messages and not the files changed.