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"Numbers in commit messages don't really make any sense. I don't understand what value they might have."

I like to refer to 'commit 347' rather than 'commit a3bh'. There's an implicit sense of how old a commit is.

Then if you later decide to shuffle the order of the commits, squash, or do other interesting things, you run into GWBASIC line numbering problems.

I find I'm far less likely to need to insert commits than I was to insert lines in GWBASIC.