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by martijnvds 966 days ago
Try reading the git logs of some of the bigger open source projects (especially the Linux kernel).

Those really show why those commit messages are useful to figure out why things were done the way they were ("what the dev was thinking"). This is especially useful if some kind of bug is found 2 years later and someone who wasn't involved in the original change needs to fix it.