Effective Commit Message Writing Guidelines
History and Importance of Commit Messages Systematic guidelines for writing commit messages became widely known in 2008 when Tim Pope proposed the 50/72 rule (50-character subject, 72-character body line wrap) in his blog post “A Note About Git Commit Messages.” In 2014, the commit message convention developed by the Angular team for the AngularJS project gained industry attention. In 2017, Conventional Commits 1.0.0 was released based on this foundation, and it has since become the most widely used standard in open source projects. ...