The most effective way I've found to get other people to "write" good commit messages is by changing the "Default commit message" for squash merges on the GitHub repo to "Pull request title and description". [1]
That fixes the "Squashing, when you have 100 crap commits, and then not re-editing the message is a crime" item, because suddenly not re-editing will give you a fairly useful message. This ofcourse assumes the PR description is useful, but I've found it much easier to convince people to write a decent PR description than to write decent commit messages.
That fixes the "Squashing, when you have 100 crap commits, and then not re-editing the message is a crime" item, because suddenly not re-editing will give you a fairly useful message. This ofcourse assumes the PR description is useful, but I've found it much easier to convince people to write a decent PR description than to write decent commit messages.
[1]: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-08-23-new-options-for-con...