[Phenix88be]

I rarely read the commit messages. It's often faster to just read the code than an obscure description, I'd rather have a small sentence that summarizes what the diff is doing than a technical paper explaining every change in the commit. I don't read pass the title.

[Cthulhu_]

Sure, but in bigger projects there's going to be thousands of commits and hundreds of thousands of lines in a diff; reading code becomes infeasible then.

But it's the only way if there's no commit message discipline, and even if there is it'll be difficult.

[IshKebab]

Most of the time that's fine, but then you'll find a bit of code that's broken and the change that added it makes no sense and the commit message is empty. Kind of infuriating.