On Friday, July 25th, 2025 at 01:46, Gabriel Wicki <gabr...@erlikon.ch> wrote:
> that had a sense of: "Oh, this is what hackers used to do in the olden
> days", meaning: doing things the way they make sense. I feel our
it made sense when software distribution happened with tarballs and there were
no VCS systems.
> Writing commit messages saying what is changed and explaining why on
> a more conceptual level IMHO helps (new) contributors, reviewers and
> hackers trying to figure out why some (breaking) changes were
> introduced. New contributors learn to think commit history in a
yes, good commit messages have value.
the question here is whether the benefits of enforcing the ChangeLog format
these days are worth more than its costs.
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