[cs02rm0]

It's simply cost-benefit.

I mostly work on relatively short term projects these days rather than long lived products and so my commit messages tend to be single sentences, with an extra paragraph if it was particularly involved. It takes little time and once in a while will be useful.

I probably lean more towards them not mattering that much relative to what anyone who talks about "best practice" would like to see. That said, I picked up a codebase from another team the other day where one commit message was simply a ";)" and the rest not much more in depth. That did make me wince a bit.