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Detailed commit messages w/ Chris Toomey

YAGNI

CHAPTER

The Importance of Committing Good Commit Messages

The meaningful stuff to me is you have a bunch of context in your head as you worked on this feature. Write it down. Tell me a little bit of a story about why you did it that way and with a focus on the point in time where you're communicating that to your team, which for me is the pull request or the code review. I would definitely focus on those elements significantly more.

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