* Though not required, it's a good idea to begin the commit message with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough description. Tools that turn commits into email, for example, use the first line on the Subject: line and the rest of the commit in the body. The git-shortlog command the we use to write the release notes will strip the more detailed description.
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* If your commit does fix a certain bug make sure that the summarizing line contains the bug number prepended by a '#' at the end of the line (e.g. #14). We