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Personally I capitalise the subject line only if it doesn't contain any prefixes, e.g.
37624b5 Linux 5.1-rc7
or
b2a20fd Merge branch 'bnxt_en-Misc-bug-fixes'
etc. I.e. really only special cases. When there are prefixes I personally optically prefer
8118b82 mm/page_alloc.c: fix never set ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT flag
to
ef61eb4 USB: yurex: Fix protection fault after device removal
As far as I know in English a colon should be followed by lower case, it's in German that it is followed by upper case. So, I would appreciate it if we didn't try to enforce this, at least not until there's a corresponding entry in CodingStyle ;-) We also could collect some statistics. E.g. of the last 5000 commits in my current Linux tree, that contain a colon in the subject, 2692 begin with a lower case after the last colon and 1825 with upper case.
I see your point on this and I agree! No enforcement for capital letter after prefix strings.
Anyhow, I am stressing again on writing good commit messages which explain WHY the change is needed.
thanks, Daniel.