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Discussion on: Format of commit messages

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Jing Xue

What Steven said. Technically we are supposed to keep the first line within 80 characters, and put detailed changes in a following paragraph, but nobody reads past the first line these days...

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Andrii

but nobody reads past the first line these days...

I think it always has been.
In 90% of cases, you need only high-level description of commit to understand what changes were related to. You need details only if you want to find out why that changes were made, e.g. when you have an issue related to that code.