In an organization I've worked at we used to write good commit messages, about 9 years ago, before we started using Github. Then our good commit messages turned

In an organization I've worked at we used to write good commit messages, about 9 years ago, before we started using Github. Then our good commit messages turned into good PR intros. I think Github and Gitlab etc are fantastic, but I'm a little sad that so much valuable information has been divorced from the git repository itself (and of course, the ultimate fate of those PR intros across the open source world depends on the companies hosting the repo.) Personally, rightly or wrongly, the fact that I can't use Github/Gitlab to contribute to Django and Emacs prevents me from trying to make contributions to those projects. Similarly I find the insistence on using email to send patches, frustrating, when I know PRs (MRs) work so well. However, I guess Emacs and the linux kernel are keeping their good commit messages in their git repo and not losing them to a hosting company. Maybe there should be tooling for automatically converting a PR intro to a commit message.