From fb08eb63c4c36cfafe92b5c54e7aa2389914f4ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeffrey Phillips Freeman <jeffrey.freeman@syncleus.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:05:02 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] docs: added an additional paragraph to the commit message
 section.

---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index ea556e4b..41131d72 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ highly recommended developers install [Commitizen](https://commitizen.github.io/
 it extends the git command and will make writing commit messages a breeze. All the Aparapi
 repositories are configured with local Commitizen configuration scripts.
 
+Commit messages are used to automatically generate our changelogs, and to ensure
+commits are searchable in a useful way. So please use the Commitizen tool and adhere to
+the commit message standard or else we cannot accept Pull Requests without editing
+them first.
+
 Below is an example of a properly formated commit message.
 
 ```
-- 
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