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docs: the commit subject convention, stated where it can be read

a73x   2026-09-01 04:54

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docs: the commit subject convention, stated where it can be read

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311 metaphor. See docs/decisions.md.) 311 metaphor. See docs/decisions.md.)
312 - Commit often with `--fixup`/`--squash`, autosquash before delivery. The final 312 - Commit often with `--fixup`/`--squash`, autosquash before delivery. The final
313 history should tell the feature's story, not the development's. 313 history should tell the feature's story, not the development's.
314 - **A commit subject is `type: what changed`.** `type` is one of `feat` `fix`
315 `refactor` `test` `docs` `build` `chore`, and there is no parenthesised
316 scope — this repo has never spelled one. The type is what `git log --oneline`
317 is read THROUGH when a release is written: the reader skips the `test:` and
318 `refactor:` lines and reads the `feat:` and `fix:` ones. Twenty commits on
319 the connection-primitives branch drifted into ad-hoc scopes (`link:`,
320 `serve:`, `harness:`) and bare sentences, because the convention lived only
321 in the history and nothing here stated it; they were reworded 2026-09-01.
314 - `git-collab` tracks issues (`git-collab issue list`); the commit-msg hook 322 - `git-collab` tracks issues (`git-collab issue list`); the commit-msg hook
315 stamps `Patch:` trailers. Each collab write costs a ~15s origin sync — batch. 323 stamps `Patch:` trailers. Each collab write costs a ~15s origin sync — batch.
316 - `make check` before commit, `make ci` before delivery; capture `$?` before 324 - `make check` before commit, `make ci` before delivery; capture `$?` before