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great.

next up: a well-written & concise guide on writing proper commit messages. could be based on http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa... and http://robots.thoughtbot.com/5-useful-tips-for-a-better-comm...

Tim's post (the first link) is great; I've been meaning to start using git hooks to enforce the standards that he's set out in it.

A sample script can be found here:

http://addamhardy.com/blog/2013/06/05/good-commit-messages-a...

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