[jeremyw]

I take Scott's point with a difference perspective.

Though commit messages are ephemeral and hard to utilize in the future, they're the stream of consciousness of the project.

They convey very important shifts in direction, discoveries in the making, code smells, limits of current architecture, and markers of tech debt. We don't know what this beast will be. And we figure it out commit by commit. Document it.

[yencabulator]

Commit messages are the very opposite of ephemeral; they are the longest-lasting history a project is likely to have!

[jeremyw]

Yes, I misworded. The usefulness of commit messages, Scott's point.