Indeed, it's a neat "hack" to force yourself to write better commit messages. I think this style of commit messages originated from the zeromq community: https:

Indeed, it's a neat "hack" to force yourself to write better commit messages. I think this style of commit messages originated from the zeromq community: https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/commits/master https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/commits/master https://github.com/zeromq/zproto/commits/master https://github.com/zeromq/zproto/commits/master