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by shadowfiend 2538 days ago
I poked at this concept myself with a short-lived old side project called sophocles: https://github.com/Shadowfiend/sophocles . At the time I was experimenting with displaying the diff and the commit message side-by-side, as well.

This post says:

> I’m not advocating using literary commits in real-world software

But I think variations of the underlying thinking are very important for real-world software, even if it's not the exact same thing. Brain dumped this around the time I was working on sophocles at http://shadowfiend.posthaven.com/using-commit-messages-for-d... , and it's still a core part of how I develop software and how I want the teams around me to as well.