as davvid says, the git project is an excellent place to start. The git project inherited a lot of its practices from the linux kernel project, but they are dif

as davvid says, the git project is an excellent place to start. The git project inherited a lot of its practices from the linux kernel project, but they are different enough to make looking at both interesting. The archive for the git list is at [1]. The other great thing to look for is a well designed standard, with examples, for how a commit message should look. Most everyone who uses a standard uses The Standard* [2], so I would suggest you do the same. * Except that many projects don't require the sign-off [1] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git [2] http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa... (I am pretty sure there is a very similar post from Linus on a mailing list somewhere, but I can't find it. This is the most commonly linked to that I could find.) [EDIT] formatting...