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In case you are interested: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/first-2-words-a-signal-for-scanning/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/first-2-words-a-signal-for-... https://www.nngroup.com/articles/text-scanning-patterns-eyetracking/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/text-scanning-patterns-eyet... https://www.nngroup.com/articles/list-entries/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/list-entries/ Commit summaries are typically viewed as lists (though not always, and in that case you often have more context, e.g., the rest of the message and the diff) We optimize them as we would list entries in any other thing we design for human consumption. Btw, we didn't refer to these specific articles when we made our decision, I found them just now. I updated my article with links to these. Thanks again for the discussion.