If you reflect on the fact that there are people actually reading the
messages (else they wouldn't be complaining!), you might feel it's
quite
nice to write them ;-)
There are some other advantages:
- If you're able to write a concise and meaningful summary of your
changes, you probably understood what you were doing.
- Comments serve as a reminder of what you've done so far and why, not
just for you but also for other, new developers who want to work on a
project. Humans tend to forget ("Just why did I make *that* change?"),
so every memory aid is welcome. Who knows if GWorkspace volunteers
were chased away by the lack of comments?
- Sure, you've got a bug tracker to do bookkeeping on bugs, but it
might be a bother to find out in which revision you introduced a bug
as a result of fixing another.
- ChangeLogs are easier to compile from a list of already written
comments. Everybody loves changelogs!
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