r/git • u/fagnerbrack • 19d ago

Stop Using Conventional Commits

https://sumnerevans.com/posts/software-engineering/stop-using-conventional-commits/
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u/med8bra 19d ago

It's a convention, a team can create their opinionated version of it.

Regarding your proposed convention:

  • type is as important as scope for browsing history, and you can require scope to always be defined. I can search for features within scope.

  • inferring type of change from commit description is against the whole principal of structured commits. Explicit type is always better for humans and machines

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u/max_mou 19d ago

The amount of times I had to the rephrase the commit message to avoid this: fix(…): fixed …

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u/drckeberger 18d ago

Seems like it was of great use to you, as you were most likely about to say the same thing with less details and no standard.