An idealistic reason for encouraging longer-form commit messages is that they have the side effect of more coherent commits, making the history easier to navigate, making the history more useful, and so your workflow will probably use the history more.
A practical reason for longer-form commit messages even in modern PR workflows is that they allow you to create and view commentary on a group of changes across files without leaving your editor.
As an interface to git, nothing beats magit. Even if you never use Emacs for editing any text files, it's useful as a magit runner.
A practical reason for longer-form commit messages even in modern PR workflows is that they allow you to create and view commentary on a group of changes across files without leaving your editor.
As an interface to git, nothing beats magit. Even if you never use Emacs for editing any text files, it's useful as a magit runner.