On: Writing good commit messages

[Karunamon]

Came to say exactly this. If I see a commit message along the lines of :

    Fix bug foo

I'm going to assume that there is a bug that exists in this release that the author intends to fix later. Kind of like a TODO, which is what it sounds like.

[activepeanut → Karunamon]

There are much better tools to manage TODOs and bugs. Not to mention the visibility of commit messages outside of the dev team.

[highwind → Karunamon]

I think I would write "Fixes bug foo".