> As such, multiline commit messages (whether added on the command line or via the editor) seem doubly pointless to me

So your commit messages are always made of less than 80 characters, how can you claim that they are informative??

Personally I very rarely manage to keep them in a single line, almost always there's something to dump from my mind that will help a lot when I or someone else will have to deal with that commit a few months from now.

You don't read your messages because they really are not informative!