[steveklabnik]

It's impossible to know what you'll need in the future, and you can't effectively go back and look for tags, though.

My approach is to add silly things in as fluff, not as the message itself.

    The frobnicator now frobnicates.

becomes

    The frobnicator now frobnicates, omgh4x!!!11

or whatever. Make sure you've got enough _real_ information there, and some light extra whatever is fine.

Then again, sometimes, you really need good commit messages: http://github.com/shoes/shoes/commit/95fed5e6310cb0174ba80b8...