Comment by ronjouch

Meh. This post is not harmful, but focuses on syntax and fails to insist on the most important thing: tell WHY you made the change; the what and how are already apparent in your code.

See Greg Ward at PyCon 2014: "Documenting history, or How to write great commit messages". His talk starts at 6:07. Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb6ij4eRu6c#t=367