[Nfd-dev] Contributing guide: should commit messages start with upper case or lower case?

[Junxiao Shi]

Dear folks

I'm reading NFD repository's contributing guide, and I notice an
inconsistency in "commit messages" section.
https://github.com/named-data/NFD/blob/43bb2315ea022b9aed7fe7922d7b8d8161cf1bc9/CONTRIBUTING.md#commit-messages

Quote from contributing guide:

Commit messages should:


   - Be written in an imperative mood. E.g. "Make foo a bar" and not "Foo
   is now a bar"
   - Use the present tense. E.g. "Make foo a bar" and not "Made foo a bar"

To explain, the anatomy of a typical commit message is like this:

docs: write contributing guide and code of conduct


refs: #3898

Change-Id: Ife89360305027dba9020f0b298793c1121ae1fd6c


The verb in two examples of the first paragraph is written in upper case,
but the verb in the anatomy example is written in lower case.
I wonder which one is correct?

Yours, Junxiao
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