Conventional Commits Considered Harmful
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The article argues that Conventional Commits are not as useful as claimed, sparking a discussion on their effectiveness in software development.
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mehagar
3 months ago
We're using conventional commits on my team, and it's extremely annoying. I've never had a reason to go deeper into the history of a repo outside of the PR merge commit history. I think it makes more sense to have conventions on PR descriptions.
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