Conventional Commits Makes Me Sad
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The author expresses frustration with Conventional Commits, a specification for commit messages, arguing it doesn't improve commit quality or readability, and the HN discussion touches on the usefulness and limitations of such standards.
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zahlman
2 months ago
This is the first I heard that there's an actual specification for this.
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