Not to mention, the best commit messages are about the code that isn’t there. As you say, we know what’s there. I need the author to tell me why it’s there, an

Not to mention, the best commit messages are about the code that isn’t there. As you say, we know what’s there. I need the author to tell me why it’s there, and perhaps what other alternatives were abandoned because they didn’t work. You know, so I don’t waste a day finding out for myself why you didn’t just do ${obvious}.