Law 7 · The Lowercase Annals
Commit in the lowercase tongue — type: subject.
The Mossy Dekalogue · Law 7 of 14Commit in the lowercase tongue — type: subject. For the log is the garden's annals, and annals must scan.
Every commit is a sentence in a book that machines read first. Fix the grammar and the book indexes itself: the type is the verb, the subject the clause, and `git log` becomes a query language — search by intent, bisect by meaning, generate the changelog from the annals that already scanned. The lowercase tongue is not affectation; it is signal-to-noise made policy.
Annals that scan predict; annals that shout confuse. Write for the machine that greps and the human who reads.
Shapeconventional commits: the type is the verb, the subject is the sentence
Whygreppable, bisectable, changelog-generatable — the log is a query language
Recordthe git log is the system of record; there is no other
Tonelowercase is humility: the work speaks, the message carries it