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by POiNTx 878 days ago
If you work with more than 1 person on a project, commit messages can be very useful during reviews. Sometimes a change sets up a later change, and you need context on why the change is being done. It also forces you to split up your code into bite sized chuncks so changes are easier to understand for other contributors.

That being said, this is the only reason I think of for writing a commit message. After adding the commits into master (via rebase preferably), I've rarely read a commit message.