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Is "Fix bug" actually in the present tense? I would have thought present tense would be "Fixing bug", and that Fix bug is imperative.

That makes more sense (to me) for the example of rebasing - the applied diffs become a list of commands of what to do: Do this! Do that!

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I hesitate to be this guy, but: If I'm not mistaken, strictly speaking, the mood/mode is imperative, but the tense is present. Imperative is not a tense. In English, there are only two true tenses: past and present.

To disclose fully, I had only a notion of this before resorting to Wikipedia to confirm and provide some clarity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_tense and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_mood

They're both present tense:

- "Fix bug" is simple present

- "Fixing bug" is present progressive

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