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Completely agree, the value with the message is really just to link an external ticket Id, the user experience is much better in external ticketing systems for all of the story telling that the article loves.

Don't read "external ticket system" as closed either, plenty systems are open to the public.

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Right. The massive commit with minimal description and a PR number which I can look up in Azure DevOps to find a review with no description, no discussion and a mention of a number I can go and look up in Jira, where some Scrum master wrote half a sentence of what needs to be done and asking to "reach out to Jeff" for explanation.

So much more valuable and great user experience

Just wait till next year when your employer migrates away from Azure DevOps and that PR number will be a dangling link forever lost.

Or you just move the repository to a different protect

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