ok, but did they have to make commit message required, or is there a way to disable it? i think of git as checkpoints, nothing more. the day i have to explore history is the day i quit.
To understand your point of view, is this because you have seen very bad commit messages (I have too!) like "fixed" repeating 700 times and now come to believe it's a pointless thing in the grand scheme of things anyway?
I think I can understand it to a degree. If the code is well-documented (with comments and design docs) then there really should not be a need to look at the prior state of the code. In an ideal universe, the only things that should matter are what the code currently does and what is being requested that it do new or differently.
That's about as charitable as I can be to their take.
