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by oxidant 496 days ago
> The product why belongs in a linked issue that describes the bug or use case in full detail.

That's nice until you switch git hosts or project management systems and the context is lost. Commits live forever, use them.

At least a small summary of "why" would've been so helpful many times in the legacy codebase I maintain instead of "fix tests", "format", "FOO-123"