Definitely a workable idea. I used to play a lot of Rimworld and, as is good practice in heavily modded long-run games, would frequently make manual saves. The

Definitely a workable idea. I used to play a lot of Rimworld and, as is good practice in heavily modded long-run games, would frequently make manual saves. The names of those saves weren't in the style of commit messages (more like episode titles) but it was a similar idea, expressing the current state of the world or my intentions or my reactions to events. Reading back the save names in chronological order is always a fun little way to relive the story of that colony :)