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On 9 October 2014 12:43,  <dteske@freebsd.org> wrote:

> I believe I have observed waxing and waning use of
> these acronyms, and your recent poll shows a current
> waning trend; however I wish more commits would:
>
> a. describe the individual action in the message rather
> than the over-arching, higer-level action
> b. Use these acronyms more

I think it's silly to have to manually specify metadata in a commit
message which is already perfectly captured by the tool itself.  The
manually-entered metadata is not 100% reliable across the projects
history anyway.

That said, I'd be happy to help review a proposed patch to the
committer's handbook or Subversion primer that documents these terms
and presents examples of their use.