[DougWebb]

I'm looking at a commit message from one of my clients today, which is just "Not, new bins, cant stop bins" and a check-in of several hundred dlls generated as build artifacts. Six days later another developer at the client checked-in a commit that removed all of the dlls, with the message "remove BIN folder".

Some other examples: "Fixes to make work", "Left Over", and their most common message " ".

They're nice guys to work with, but their VC habits are awful.

[GoodIntentions]

I have to admit, I've made number of commits with "." as the message.

No excuse, beyond it usually being a minor change well documented in the code ( I always write comments ) and me being utterly buried under work... You know, start the day with 20 things to do, crack off 4 of them and have 23 things in queue at the end of your day.

The "." was sort of a placeholder for "Fuck This, I'm ready to quit." ( and I did eventually )

[gknoy]

That's when I prefer to use `git amend` or rebasing. I'll make "WIP doing things" commits, and then later squish a few together before making the code more public.