The past sounds good, until recently I was writing my commit messages using it, but when you start making pull requests on GitHub, you realize that it makes a l

The past sounds good, until recently I was writing my commit messages using it, but when you start making pull requests on GitHub, you realize that it makes a lot more sense in general to use present for the titles of your commits. A commit can be seen as a patch, which has a single purpose: "Add...".