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Linus Torvalds Asks Kernel Developers To Write Better Git Merge Commit Messages (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

The advice I stick to is letting your commit message follow "applying this commit will BLANK." So like "Fix error when blah" as opposed to "fixes error when blah"