Most of the commit messages in my personal projects say “Temp” and yet to see any issues with that. I have some repos where I maintain commit messages (by inertia) and it always bugs me as an utterly useless routine.
In the rare case when I have to investigate history, there are actual code changes and all the tools to navigate them. There’s no “read through the log to find a change” in my workflow, just like there’s no “read through code to find an identifier”.
It doesn’t mean that this works for all projects and workflows. People report their day saved by a commit message. But that blanket belief in sacred commit messages is just that. It’s not unusual to see a 1-person repo to contain synthetic messages cause under no peer pressure people act like it’s natural to them.
In the rare case when I have to investigate history, there are actual code changes and all the tools to navigate them. There’s no “read through the log to find a change” in my workflow, just like there’s no “read through code to find an identifier”.
It doesn’t mean that this works for all projects and workflows. People report their day saved by a commit message. But that blanket belief in sacred commit messages is just that. It’s not unusual to see a 1-person repo to contain synthetic messages cause under no peer pressure people act like it’s natural to them.