My opinion about Git commit messages has always been the same: if you can't describe it in English, you don't know what you're committing. If your commit messa

My opinion about Git commit messages has always been the same: if you can't describe it in English, you don't know what you're committing. If your commit message is too long and messy, you're committing unrelated things that should be split into multiple commits. The commit message is a direct indicator of the quality of your commit.