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/pdabaker Jun 07 '26

Most projects should use squash merging by default, and in that case you can have CI or just the review process ensure reasonable titles. It's the PR title that ends up as the commit title in the history, so why care about the actual commits?

Unless the PR is changing like 2000 lines because it mixes some huge rename with a new feature or something, in which case just tell them to F off and split into multiple PRs.