There was this old statue with a large plaque under it bearing his name. I asked my mum who he was, she didn't know.
I understood the point of a statue was to be remembered if not honored for something but they forgot to describe who he was.
Eventually very little will remain to remember us by. You will likely be reduced eventually to a single commit message.
Therefore I coin a micro-format for code comments and commit messages. You should start with a child hood story, then comes a section about what you've learned that day, then you explain how it applies to the code and finally what have you done.
It's not really imperative, it's just commit-message-present. The implicit subject is "I", referring to the patch, like Smalltalk documentation style. This canard goes as high as Junio himself, though. :)
I understood the point of a statue was to be remembered if not honored for something but they forgot to describe who he was.
Eventually very little will remain to remember us by. You will likely be reduced eventually to a single commit message.
Therefore I coin a micro-format for code comments and commit messages. You should start with a child hood story, then comes a section about what you've learned that day, then you explain how it applies to the code and finally what have you done.