> If I see an error in the middle of a bunch of commits that look like "trying x with y." Then I know that this is a tricky problem, and the developer was lucky

> If I see an error in the middle of a bunch of commits that look like "trying x with y." Then I know that this is a tricky problem, and the developer was lucky to get it to work at all. Just an aside, but if there problem being solved is harder than it looks then this deserves a comment explaining why in either the commit message or in the code itself.