Thank you for that link, I'm glad to have that data point in my head now. At first I misread your explanation of DVCS as a patch management system and was goin

Thank you for that link, I'm glad to have that data point in my head now. At first I misread your explanation of DVCS as a patch management system and was going to say that non-imperative forms of commit summaries would function similarly. Now I understand your point, and I thank you again for explaining a useful way to conceptualize what merging multiple git commits together actually accomplishes.