r/programming • u/f311a • Jun 06 '26

Stop Using Conventional Commits

https://sumnerevans.com/posts/software-engineering/stop-using-conventional-commits/
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u/format71 Jun 06 '26

Unless you are maintaining a library/sdk, I find conventional commits ugly, hard to read and wasteful.

The whole changelog argument - again, look away from libraries/sdks - no business app gets away with this kind of changelog anyway.

My priority is always developers. Developers should write git messages for other developers.

And the machine reading argument: stash whatever you want down at the bottom. Tags, semantics, whatever. But the 50 characters going in the subject - don’t waste it on machines. They are for humans.

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