I tried varying my commit messages from those recommended, (e.g., in the second commit, I typed 'git commit -m "Commit all the things!"'), and the commit messag

I tried varying my commit messages from those recommended, (e.g., in the second commit, I typed 'git commit -m "Commit all the things!"'), and the commit messages weren't reflected in the "git log" output. It's not clear to me now how much of this is canned response and how much actually runs git.