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How is "Do not end subject with a full stop" self-explanatory, but "Begin subject with a capital letter" not self-explanatory? Makes me suspect the author doesn
by mrspeaker 6y ago
How is "Do not end subject with a full stop" self-explanatory, but "Begin subject with a capital letter" not self-explanatory? Makes me suspect the author doesn't really know why they don't put a full stop ;)
Now I don't know why don't you put one! I vaguely to remember reading this on the last "how to write good commit messages" blog and thinking it seemed fair, but now I can't think of a reason. Why follow grammar rules for the start of a sentence, but not the end?
- rement 6y agoWould you add a full stop in an email subject? I think of commit messages like an email. The first line is just the subject and sometimes that is all you need. The body of the commit message is for describing other details. edit: Another blog has a simple reason https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/ https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/ > 4. Do not end the subject line with a period > Trailing punctuation is unnecessary in subject lines. Besides, space is precious when you’re trying to keep them to 50 chars or less.