I've found that writing commit messages by stating the problem in the subject, and an explanation of the solution in the body makes them very clear and descript

I've found that writing commit messages by stating the problem in the subject, and an explanation of the solution in the body makes them very clear and descriptive. For example: Problem: Windows build script requires edit of VS version Solution: Use CMD.EXE environment variable to extract DevStudio version number and build using it. I got the idea from ZeroMQ's/hintjens' various repos.