Re: [PATCH] wt-status: Don't find scissors line beyond buf len

> "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <code@khaugsbakk.name> writes:
> > On Thu, Mar 7, 2024, at 21:47, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> [jc: tweaked the commit log message and the implementation a bit]
> >
> > Just a question. Given the imperative mood principle/rule, why are these
> > bracket changelog lines always written in the past tense?
>
> These are not giving orders to the code to become like so.  The
> trailer block records what happend to the patch in chronological
> order---think of those written there at one level higher level,
> "meta" comments.