[Python-Dev] Commit messages: please avoid temporal ambiguity

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/11/2011 12:39 PM, Éric Araujo wrote:

> Funny, I always use the present tense, to convey what the code does now.

Which code ;-).

At the moment you write a push message, your private clone does 
something different from the public repository (and other private 
clones). At the moment people read a push message, they may not have 
pulled the change, so that there is a difference between the repository 
and *their* clone. Besides the ambiguity, there is also inconsistency 
between writers. Hence my request for a few clarifying keystrokes when 
needed.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy