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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you put effort into your commit messages before the rewrite, or just write something quick for yourself and then put in the effort later?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Depends, but usually I will put in the effort up front and maybe tweak them in an in[eractive rebase, or just manually copy+paste.

If they're worth saving. Sometimes you have to kill your darlings though