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Discussion on: Why I enjoy conventional commits

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Jeremy Friesen

But why do I love conventional commits? Well its simple really, it makes me think just a bit harder about what I have done. It's a good mental check for me before I push my changes and open a PR. And I find that that pause to think moment really keeps me going.

This is a great sentiment, I find that slowing down and commit message time is one of the best things I can do. Take time to bring context to the change; a link or three to different PRs/Issues that inter-related.

And having that prefix would be quite useful. It is something I would imagine a whole engineering team would need to discuss and adopt.

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Jesse Phillips

It allows me to work on multiple things at a time and even come back to things months later.

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Patrick Wendo

It really helps. Getting the whole team to adopt takes time. People are comfortable with their ways but I find that as a junior developer it is in my best interest to try and help them adopt it.