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 This section contains some suggestions and traditions for how commit logs are formatted.
 
+The ports repository provides a template to help with the commit message.
+It can be installed from inside (anywhere) of your ports repository:
+
+[source,shell]
+....
+% git config --add core.hooksPath .hooks
+....
+
 === Why are commit messages important?
 
 When you commit a change in Git, Subversion, or another version control system (VCS), you're prompted to write some text describing the commit -- a commit message.