A well-crafted commit can have a few words or five paragraphs. A few words will never be enough for a non-obvious change. Some people might then say “use code

A well-crafted commit can have a few words or five paragraphs. A few words will never be enough for a non-obvious change. Some people might then say “use code comments”. But those inline comments won’t work when you have five years of source code change and those three lines deserve a cumulative seven comments.