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by jupp0r 1250 days ago
This is horrible. Commit messages should contain the reason why this change has been made and not imprecise prose summaries of what the diff looks like.
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The comments here are acting as if the messages can't be changed. As someone else mentioned, this should be used as a starting point to summarize the change, but the reason for the change obviously can, and should, be added by a human.

This is far from horrible.

It adds 100% of what I would point out in code reviews to be removed from the commit message. It incentivizes an anti-pattern, so yes it's horrible.