I’d take it one step further: if `git log`—a hierarchical view of the connection of commits—is the only way you (and your team) interact with commit messages, then yea it’s probably fine.
But, I think the value of commit messages become really apparent once you (or your team) are relying on other visualizations of commit messages like `blame` and `bisect`
Tracking down the introduction of a bug with bisect and resolving to a commit whose message in “minor”, because the person in the past didn’t think this change was important enough to describe intent can quite the temporal foot-gun.
But, I think the value of commit messages become really apparent once you (or your team) are relying on other visualizations of commit messages like `blame` and `bisect`
Tracking down the introduction of a bug with bisect and resolving to a commit whose message in “minor”, because the person in the past didn’t think this change was important enough to describe intent can quite the temporal foot-gun.