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After seeing people use the @jetbrains UI to commit to git I understand where all those - sorry: shitty - commit messages come from....

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An improvement would already be to have a "Subject" line and the text box.

And have the subject line follow the Beams Rule.

Sonthat the first line of the commit message finishes the sentence

"When this commit is applied it will..."

And please: No longer than 56(?) characters (Unicode). Keep it short. You got the textbox to explain *why* in full length.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@clovis

We might be talking about two different sets of standard. What I would want Jetbrains to support out of the box is the "Subject line, Blank Line, Body" convention that is recommended in the git docs.

People can happily change the defaults to whatever they want but the recommendation from git should IMO be the default.

/cc @ramsey @jetbrains