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Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2013, #05; Mon, 15)
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Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com> writes:

> ...  Almost every time I bisect a regression
> in git.git, I find the commit message tells me exactly why the commit
> did what it did and what the expected result was.  I find this to be
> amazingly useful.
> ...
> Of course, 99% of the commit messages may never be useful to me or
> anyone else.  But we do not eschew them altogether.  The 1% I have to
> rely on are nearly always helpful and clear, and that is the part I
> care about.

It is nice to be appreciated for our efforts by somebody every once
in a while ;-)

Thanks.