Writing it in the passive voice is slightly more awkward. E.g., "git cherry-pick" was enhanced with an "--allow-empty-message option". Similarly, writing it in

Writing it in the passive voice is slightly more awkward. E.g., "git cherry-pick" was enhanced with an "--allow-empty-message option". Similarly, writing it in the active voice but attributing the verb properly ends up with meaningless words: "Developers taught cherry-pick to..." or "We taught cherry-pick to...". Every entry would begin that way; having the first words be the relevant subsection of git makes it easier to skim through the release notes.