A small factory for useful history

Commit Message Press

Future you has opened git log at 4:47 p.m. Give that poor soul the why, not merely the wreckage.

Set the type.

Form CM–4
Revision 1.0

Ticket optional

Summary imperative voice

Problem what hurt?

Solution what changed?

Side effects what else moves?

Inspired by Jon’s “How I am writing commit messages now”, a 2014 experiment in saving the why and the how for whoever investigates later.