Hi Toralf,

By "what has changed" do you mean the list of modified files or a brief 
description / explanation of what has changed?

For those of us who use a GUI interface to GIT like SourceTree, it is _very_ 
helpful for the GIT commit message to start with a brief description of _what_ 
has changed.  SourceTree (which I highly recommend) presents a list of commits 
as one line each, with the first part of the commit message shown for each.  
This allows us very quickly to see what has changed with each commit without 
needing to examine each one individually.

I agree with Jord that 'quick updates', or 'quick fixes' is not helpful, but I 
also don't want to see empty commit messages.  I feel that _every_ commit 
should have a commit message briefly describing what was changed and why.

Cheers,
--Charlie

On May 28, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Toralf Förster wrote:

> It would be sometimes helpful for 3rd party
> testers/reviewers/people_which_are_just_interested if the git comments
> would be more descriptive or completely empty to not waste space,
> especially comments shouldn't tell what was changed but why a change was
> made, or ?
> 
> 
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