Do you ever look at a commit message and think “this is just awful”? I’m sure you have, especially when doing a code review. git commit -m "stuff" might work for personal projects or when you’re frustrated, but you should work towards a standard way of doing your commit messages. Different places have various standards, but one open source standard I’ve adopted is conventional commits . It’s taken several months to get into the habit of using conventional commits, but now that I’ve gotten used to it, I can’t imagine not using this commit style.