“…, because…” in commit message

Igor Budasov
WebDevOps
Published in
1 min readJul 13, 2018

I keep struggling sometimes with knowing why has this code been written.

All the known ways seem to be complicated.

The solution

So I come up with idea to add ..., because of ... to every my commit message.

If a team accepts this rule as a “git style”, every developer can use git blame or Annotate function of IDE to see not only who changed the line, but also — why!

In my experience devs anyway use git blame to detect the person who’s written the code and go to him/her with a question like:

— Why have you done this?

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Igor Budasov
WebDevOps

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