alt Hacker NewsI disagree. When you look at the git history in x months you're gonna have a hard time understanding what was done following your example.
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relistan • 01/22/2025
By adding more context? I’m not sure who you’re replying to or what your objection is.
I disagree. If you look back and all you see are commit messages summarizing the diff, you won't get any meaningful information.
Telling me `Changed timeout from 30s to 60s` means nothing, while `Increase timeout for slow <api name> requests` gives me an actual idea of why that was done.
Even better if you add meaningful messages to the commit body.
Take a look at commits from large repositories like the Linux kernel and we can see how good commit messages looks like.