[rwallace]

Eh, uninformative commit messages aren't a sin, they're a trade-off. Right now, most of my commit messages are one word. Why? Because at the moment nobody cares about my commit messages because nobody cares about my project because it doesn't yet do anything useful. Getting to the point where it does something useful has higher priority than writing long messages nobody will read. Once the commit messages have an audience, then I'll put work into writing better ones.

[hinkley]

It's a self fulfilling prophecy though. If you want to be important you have to act important.

Yes, nobody cares about your commit messages until there's a bug or a major refactor. By then, if the commit messages suck, it's too late to do anything about it.

"Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute"

Is never more true than when you're trying to fix bugs or make improvements. A project you can't improve is a dead project.