Not sure I follow your argument. How would you put information about the semantic meaning of a series of commits into "the commit body"? The only point I'm ma

Not sure I follow your argument. How would you put information about the semantic meaning of a series of commits into "the commit body"? The only point I'm making essentially is that "the commit" is too granular to capture all the information you need about your work and its history. You need some kind of grouping mechanism as well. It doesn't have to be merge commits, necessarily. But as I understood it, your original argument was that "there is no need for anything higher level than a commit." But there clearly is imo.