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I believe the motivation is explained here - http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-gi

by raju 12y ago

I believe the motivation is explained here - 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... Write your commit message in the imperative: "Fix bug" and not "Fixed bug" or "Fixes bug." This convention matches up with commit messages generated by commands like git merge and git revert.

philh 12y ago
That mostly just passes the buck to why do merge and revert use the imperative? Simply being consistent with them doesn't seem like a very strong argument.