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I love good commit messages as well, but it can be hard to convince people to write them. I always hear "Why? i don't use them" which is self propelling. You do
by delusional 7y ago
I love good commit messages as well, but it can be hard to convince people to write them. I always hear "Why? i don't use them" which is self propelling. You don't have good messages, so you don't read them when you want to know something, so you don't write good commit messages.
- hermitdev 7y agoAnother thing I like to put in commit messages is the ticket# (of what ever bug tracker you're using) of the feature/bug task that drove the change.
- saagarjha 7y agoI don't really do comments all that often (generally, only for "Chesterton's fence-esque" things) but I do really rely on good commit messages. They are really helpful when going back in history and trying to get a general idea why something changed.