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by yjftsjthsd-h 496 days ago
> Majority of commit messages are low quality and would benefit significantly from a good summary of what was done.

Why? At that point doesn't the diff speak for itself?

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Not to mention, the best commit messages are about the code that isn’t there.

As you say, we know what’s there. I need the author to tell me why it’s there, and perhaps what other alternatives were abandoned because they didn’t work.

You know, so I don’t waste a day finding out for myself why you didn’t just do ${obvious}.