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The first line is usually part of an email title.

• ajross 14y ago
  And periods at the end of single-sentence email subjects are ... bad?
  • 4ad 14y ago
    Commits don't have to end the email subject, often I receive emails like this from some automated system: sys: commit message (issue XXX) And in English titles never end with a period anyway.
    • ajross 14y ago
      I'm still not following, why would a period ("sys: commit message. (issue XXX)" be a problem there? If anything, with your example I'd argue the period makes it more readable as it makes it clearer that "(issue XXX)" isn't part of the message.
    • jasomill 14y ago
      To reduce line noise, you also want to avoid people worrying about whether or not such-and-such qualifies as a "complete sentence" in English. N.B.: Requiring complete sentences in one-line summaries isn't generally a good rule, here or elsewhere, unless you like space-wasting filler. In describing a $memberType of $objectType, "This $memberType $actionVerbs the $objectType's $relation $relatedThing." is unnecessarily verbose. And I say this as someone who generally writes only complete sentences in SMS messages.