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I put less importance on commit messages being thorough, though I do admire when people write detailed information in the body. What's more important to me is t
by dgunay 3y ago
I put less importance on commit messages being thorough, though I do admire when people write detailed information in the body. What's more important to me is to have good commit hygiene. It's something the industry is also generally terrible at, but has slightly more immediate value. For example, if your PRs have clean, atomic commits that can stand on their own, I can "rescue" chunks of useful functionality from review hell by cherry picking them out. I do this several times a month to help my teammates burn down huge PRs or take good ideas out of doomed branches.
- cerved 3y agoAgreed. I'll settle for good commit hygiene over good commit messages. It often seems a tough ask to have both