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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2022-10-17 15:25:51 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2022-10-17 15:25:51 -0700
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[[summary-section]]
The title sentence after the "area:" prefix omits the full stop at the
-end, and its first word is not capitalized unless there is a reason to
+end, and its first word is not capitalized (the omission
+of capitalization applies only to the word after the "area:"
+prefix of the title) unless there is a reason to
capitalize it other than because it is the first word in the sentence.
E.g. "doc: clarify...", not "doc: Clarify...", or "githooks.txt:
improve...", not "githooks.txt: Improve...". But "refs: HEAD is also