#CommitMessages

Frontend Dogmafrontenddogma@mas.to
2025-05-13

Good Commit Messages Are Just Self-Care: Why I Document Everything, by (not found on Mastodon or Bluesky):

archive.fo/FPtgp

#commitmessages #documentation #git

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-03-25

👨‍🎨 "The Lost Art of Commit Messages" is a passionate plea for developers to cease their artistic expression through illegible one-word commit messages. Apparently, they believe that writing "fix" is akin to penning the next great novel. 📜🤣 Spoiler alert: nobody's code is that self-explanatory, folks. 🐒💻
seyhan.me/blog/post/lost-art-o

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io
2024-10-07

Just remember we have ALL written BAD Git commit messages, proof:

#LinusTorvalds Asks #Linux Kernel Developers To Write Better #Git Merge #CommitMessages
In particular, Torvalds is hoping that kernel maintainers will do a better job using an active, imperative voice when describing the changes within their pull requests.
phoronix.com/news/Linus-Better

Linux Penguin Bitmap
Isaac 'Atridas' Serrano GuaschAtridas@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-11-24
a git commit message that reads "making the code less insane"
Berkubernetusfuzzychef@m6n.io
2023-02-07

LOL, best PR summary evah.

"Fixes stuff"

#kubernetes #PRs #CommitMessages

Part of a PR description from Kubernetes, with these description fields:

What type of PR is this?

/kind cleanup

What this PR does / why we need it: Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes stuff
pablolarahpablolarah
2023-02-03

😜 Gitmoji
by Carlos Cuesta
@crloscuesta
Gitmoji is an emoji guide for GitHub commit messages. Aims to be a standarization cheatsheet - guide for using emojis on 's commit messages.

gitmoji.dev/

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