It's to keep in form with some automatic git messages (like merge) that output in that tense. Also that is the tense the Git project committers use themselves.

It's to keep in form with some automatic git messages (like merge) that output in that tense. Also that is the tense the Git project committers use themselves. See: 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... Also the past repeats: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079612 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079612 For a good laugh: http://whatthecommit.com/ http://whatthecommit.com/