> I wish there was some kind of auto generated commit message. Things like: > "Added function xyz()" or "Adjusted constant FOO to 27" or "Made lots of changes

> I wish there was some kind of auto generated commit message. Things like: > "Added function xyz()" or "Adjusted constant FOO to 27" or "Made lots of changes in file a.c,, b.c and c.c". I would argue that these are not good commit messages as they do not add information not already provided by the diff itself. Commit messages should communicate the intended effect of a change that has been made, rather than being a lossy compression of a sequence of keystrokes.