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- The author argues that commit messages are synopses of changes, not titles or subjects, and thus should end with a dot.
- They criticize the common advice against using a dot in the first line, stating it reduces information density.
- Many commit messages have only the first line, so it must be as informative as possible and can be a sentence.
- Treating the first line as a title changes the writing approach, leading to less dense and less useful summaries.
- The author sees programming as the art of writing synopses, making this practice a good exercise for coders.