[Python-Dev] Commit messages: please avoid temporal ambiguity (original) (raw)

Éric Araujo merwok at netwok.org
Wed May 11 18:39:54 CEST 2011

Le 10/05/2011 16:46, R. David Murray a écrit :

On Tue, 10 May 2011 17:45:44 +0400, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:

Why "fixed" is in the past tense, but "improve", and "change" are in present tense? I use past tense to describe what I did on the code, and present simple to describe what the new code does when running. For example:

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

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