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Paul Knulst

Nice article about commit messages. The basic rules you describe are important. I did the same until I found out about Conventional Commits Pattern. I would suggest that you try it at least once.

It has several benefits in terms of readability, maintainability, or if you want to revert to a specific point without investigating much.

Furthermore, it works with SemVer (semantic version). This means, you can generate changelog files automatically!

Some months ago, I wrote an article on Medium about that pattern: betterprogramming.pub/write-better...

Check it out! Until today, the feedback I got was really positive. I have also adopt the pattern at work and everyone loves it.