Commit description as a thinking tool(yedhu.me)
103 points by yedhukrishnan | 58 comments
A personal blog post arguing that writing detailed commit descriptions explaining what and why serves as a thinking tool, reconsidered in the era of AI coding.
#commit-messages on Hacker News
3 stories tagged commit-messages, newest first.
Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things(sumnerevans.com)
338 points by jsve | 242 comments
Blog post by Sumner Evans arguing against the Conventional Commits standard, saying it encourages focus on the wrong things and fails to deliver on its promises.
My favourite Git commit (2019)(dhwthompson.com)
628 points by karagenit | 359 comments
A 2019 blog post by David Thompson showcasing a detailed GOV.UK Git commit message as an example of how commit messages document a codebase.