On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 at 08:10, Benedict <bened...@apache.org> wrote: > Yes, I strongly endorse long form commit messages, though I’m often remiss > about them myself. Until IDEs auto cross-reference JIRA, and we start > sanitising our JIRA summaries, a commit record is going to be a better > description of what has been done and why. > > I think Jon is another proponent, who is more consistent about practicing > what he preaches. It would be great to formalise this as an expectation, as > if we’re honest the cost is *not* high to write a paragraph or two > distilling the work that was done. >
I strongly endorse long form commit messages as well. I read the history around anything I'm patching, and am very happy when I come across well written commits (and don't need to jump to the jira ticket).
