[ivan_gammel]

It’s called traceability of requirements and is important part of post-release QA. At any given moment of time it must be possible to understand the reason for change down to a single line of code.

[zaroth]

That’s lovely and all, but can’t be a commit message, which is primarily about succinct human understanding and setting context.

A commit can certainly have computer readable metadata I presume!

[masklinn]

> That’s lovely and all, but can’t be a commit message

Of course it can.

> which is primarily about succinct human understanding and setting context.

You do know there is essentially no limit to how long a commit message is right?