Can’t even count the number of times a bad commit message has led to sadness.
Also can’t count the number of times that a good commit template has saved me. The more descriptive I’m encouraged to be about the issues I’m solving, the changes I’ve made, and the testing I’ve conducted, the more I think of holes in my logic that I should check.
And of course, when commit messages are really bad, interactive rebase does wonders for me 