[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.