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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/jetbrains

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After seeing people use the @jetbrains UI to commit to git I understand where all those - sorry: shitty - commit messages come from....

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An improvement would already be to have a "Subject" line and the text box.

And have the subject line follow the Beams Rule.

Sonthat the first line of the commit message finishes the sentence

"When this commit is applied it will..."

And please: No longer than 56(?) characters (Unicode). Keep it short. You got the textbox to explain *why* in full length.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@BatmanAoD Because they serve a different purpose.

Purely semantically a changelog is something different than a git log (otherwise it would be named a git log).

The changelog is more a log of merges that describes the main overview of new features and also bug fixes.

If I want to know the exact details why this line of code changed, *then* I look at the git log.

Having all atomic commitlogs in the changelog tells the user that you are too busy fixing code to give them a meaningful summary