Do people actually read commit messages? I don't have much experience working on large projects with a larger team, but I keep repositories both for personal things and work so I can look at older versions. I have however never actually looked at my own commit messages, even though I try to keep them informative. I instead search through commits based on strings added/removed or file paths touched.
As such, multiline commit messages (whether added on the command line or via the editor) seem doubly pointless to me.
I would be curious to hear how others view this.