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Discussion on: How I Write Source Control Commit Messages

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Felipe Alvarez • Edited

Prepend commits with the file or component which it is affecting.

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Rhys S

In git, there are commands to see what files a commit changed - to me, prepending files names seems unnecessary

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Robert Schaap

We did this at my last job as well. Either the filename or if it's multiple the source of the changes. It makes for a much easier to read git history / merge request.

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Jakub Narębski

I agree with the component / subsystem - the file is just a special case of that (of a very small component).

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Rachel Soderberg

Visual Stuido Team Explorer shows them as well, but this makes sense for ones that dont!