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> My repo histories are riddled with stuff like "finished X", "stubbed out Y", "fix typo in X"

Where I work, our commits from years ago are like that, and since practically all the people from that era have moved on, the history is practically useless when trying to determine what they were working on and why they were working on it.

In fact, I found what appeared to be a logical error in one of the many tools we have deployed. I tried to track down when it was added and the commit just said something like "fixing integration tests".

So, not only did they change some tests, but they also added some code as well.

In other words, the reason that line of code was added is very well hidden from this "future" (now present) dev.