[wcarss]

I hear you, almost no one goes back to look at it. But it's a chicken and an egg situation: no one uses history precisely because it's useless, and no one makes useful history because no one uses it.

So, status quo rules, right?

But as your predicted person who nearly always writes this style of messages and who frequently dives into old commit messages, PRs, and tickets: this shit is not hard. It does not consume much time. It is not a deep skill, it's a basic skill, almost at the level of correct indentation in terms of effort required.

It just takes a second or two to think of what your commit does and maybe why you didn't do it the other way, then drop in a ticket reference. A tool can even do that last part! As a bonus, there are times when I tried to explain why I did something and then thought of a better way or a bug I'd missed.

If everybody did this basic exercise that takes just a minute, the commit history might actually be useful. Then most people might use it, who knows!