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Ask HN: What grammatical tense should I use when I commit to a repo?
Added functionality x to service y?
Adding "?
Adds "?
Will add "?
- loeschg 14y agoYep. Been discussed. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3580013/should-i-use-past-or-present-tense-in-git-commit-messages http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3580013/should-i-use-past... The tl;dr - use present tense if working on large distributed (open-source) project where the commit may or may not be used. Use past tense if the change isn't really optional (people basically can only merge/rebase)... which applies to most projects.