Should commit messages be written in present or past tense?

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So which is it that you think is better and more intuitive?

Fixed the XXX bug in YYY
Fix the XXX bug in YYY
Fixes the XXX bug in YYY
Fixing the XXX bug in YYY

Please provide your rationales. Note I am asking from your general perspective, meaning you should not try to associate this with your preferred svn/cvs tools or programming languages, but rather think of it as something that should/can be applied to any tools and programming languages.

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If it is a small commit I use present continuous:

Fixing bug 304

or

Adding comments

If it is a big commit, I do more of a change log:

  • Fixes Bug 453, 657 and 324
  • Adding Expression syntax
  • Refactored the Operator class.
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