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I'm just trying to convince folks to actually write commit messages. :) I don't think anyone is relying on diffs to find bugs. Do they?

Similarly, before doing something complicated at work, please talk about it with a coworker first. Last thing I want is to try to decipher a complicated piece of code without a good motivator as to why I'm doing so. Advanced warning is a great motivator.

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I do this, but not mainly to find bugs, though on rare occasions I do. I almost always find something, e.g. stylistic aberrations, overzealous changes from an intellij refactor, debug statements I forgot to remove, part of another change I'd thought I'd stashed but somehow ended up in the commit. It blows my mind that anybody would not read their diffs.

Fair. I try to do this. I still make mistakes, I'm sure. This ultimately comes down to a "good intentions." Would be neat to make a mechanism out of it.

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