One way to help this is to use some sort of tag text at the beginning of the commit info that is useful so you can see this in the sequence of commits that all go together (top is most recent commit):

sql_parser: add new languages now supported by parse_unicode()

sql_parser: switch from using old parse_text() to parse_unicode()

sql_parser: add parse_unicode()

sql_server_health: ....

sql_server_health: ....

...

rather than like:

fix stuff in this random function

updating functions using random function

The ones with the tags help the reader determine what things go together much more easily, so even those lame commits are much more helpful if they have a tag:

sql_parser: fix stuff in this random function

sql_parser: updating functions using random function