Comment by noahdesu

I'll take this further: I think that bad commit messages breed resentment. It's highly context dependent, but needing to understand some code and its historical context is already a big challenge. git-blaming your way back through time only to encounter brain dump commit messages full of ambiguity and non-essential information is excruciating. Writing good commit messages--like any technical writing--is more art than procedure, and it's hard to do well without feedback and revision. I believe that commit messages should be subject to the same level of review as the code they are presumably documenting.