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by sanderjd 4047 days ago
Is there any scenario under which a long commit message is detrimental, even if "messy"?
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It's an issue when dealing with management or clients. They can see long commits as a problem with someone with too much time on their hands.

The whole point of a version control system is that it contains everything related to the code. On lots of web dev and game projects you also commit the finalized assets (the generated javascript from coffeescript, the compressed 3d textures, etc. etc.)

That's not bad commit messages, that's bad client management.