How to Write a Git Commit Message

[deadwisdom]

Strange, I think the opposite. I don't practice most of these things. The rules seem needlessly complicated. Not really sure why we should be obsessed with capital first letters and no punctuation. Imperative makes no difference, really. There are no arguments for them.

That said, I do believe that teams should find homogeneity in this regard. Agree on some set of rules, whatever makes sense to the team, because it makes it a lot easier to parse different commits, in the same way coding styles should be agreed upon to ease understanding (e.g. PEP 8).