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@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ line separating the summary from the body is critical (unless you omit
the body entirely); tools like rebase can get confused if you run the
two together.
-Write your commit message in the present tense: "Fix bug" and not "Fixed
+Write your commit message in the imperative: "Fix bug" and not "Fixed
bug." This convention matches up with commit messages generated by
commands like git merge and git revert.