[jeremyjh]

Exactly. People latch onto these perfunctory standards because it’s easier than understanding and clearly communicating the work they’ve done.

[c-hendricks]

Or they could be used as a stepping stone in teaching people the value of being able to summarize what they've done?

[jeremyjh]

How does typing “fix:” or “feat:” get you a step closer to being thoughtful?

[c-hendricks]

To be honest I'm not really sure. I'm also not really sure how tipping "fix:" or "feat:" means people are not understanding their work and performing perfunctory actions though.

[jeremyjh]

It doesn't force that, but it gives them an out. They can type "fix: frobnicator bug" and think they've written a good commit message because it meets the standard.