[mmcnl]

Who reads commit messages anyway?

[Izkata]

I work with legacy code and am regularly reading commit messages from 10-15 years ago while figuring out what was going on several teams past. It's also why I'm against squash-merges, there have been plenty of times a commit was in the middle of a chain of commits and the helpful context would have been erased if we had squashes in svn.

[ajuc]

Commit messages are usually more useful than code comments. For one thing they change when the code changes, so they are much less likely to lie.

[theptip]

Maybe more people if the contract is that it’s how you get your work into the release notes?