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by keybored 606 days ago
It’s precisely that which makes me skeptical of it.

> For better or worse, my experience as a GitHub cofounder and author of several Git books (Pro Git, etc) is that the Git commit message is a unique vector for code documentation that is highly sub-optimal.

> ...

> I don't know exactly what the answer is, but the sad truth of Git is that writing amazing documentation via commit message, for most communities, is almost entirely a waste of time. It's just too difficult to find them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39218538