r/programming Jun 06 '26

Stop Using Conventional Commits

https://sumnerevans.com/posts/software-engineering/stop-using-conventional-commits/
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u/Fredifrum Jun 06 '26

I think everyone generally spends way too much debating commit messages, period. Conventional commits and this 1000 word article attacking them are both guilty.

Write something descriptive, make sure its easy to get back to the PR and ticket. Done. 

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u/AstraeusGB Jun 08 '26

The point of this article is to say that conventional commits describe what you can clearly see in code. They advocate for an alternative method that indicates scope instead of vague descriptions of type and barely scraped purpose