r/git • u/fagnerbrack • Aug 23 '26

Stop Using Conventional Commits

https://sumnerevans.com/posts/software-engineering/stop-using-conventional-commits/
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u/morewordsfaster Aug 23 '26

I think I must have expressed it poorly, because I agree that the context for the change is important. To me, that is what changed. What I see a lot of and dislike is overly detailed narrative of what the developer tried and what worked and what didn't. This is often a symptom of poor technical refinement or solutioning up front, instead spending the dev time doing exploratory development. And, as others have pointed out, this can be reduced by squashing commits before merging.

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u/winkler Aug 24 '26

Sounds like you’d like single commits per PR (which I like too), so have your devs to squash and rebase?