Absurdly strict grammatical point

[cjfryer]

We say:

The Git convention is to write these in the present tense

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and no full stop. The Git convention is to write these in the present tense.

But tense is irrelevant: commit messages should be written in the imperative mood. That is: they should be commands which bring the repository to a desired state.

The example we give is:

Leverage best-of-breed synergies going forward

which is obviously in the present tense. But it could be re-written as:

Leverages best-of-breed synergies going forward

and still be in the present tense.

What is to be done?

Just as we append "by zombies" to a clause to reveal the passive voice, we can vouch safe the imperative mood by prepending a silent "please" thus:

[please] Leverage best-of-breed synergies going forward