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In my line of work a bug could cost multiple millions. I do read them. I write long ones. I would love if my colleagues started writing longer ones too.

Me too.

Most of the times, the commit message is 10+ lines while the change itself is -1/+1.

We use GitHub for repo hosting and a separate issue tracker to coordinate changes. It bothers me a lot that GitHub UI doesn't render markdown for commit messages. We all write really detailed and nicely formatted commit messages, and had to work out a commit message sync so the issue tracker can display related commit messages in full Markdown glory.

If you don't expect people to read commit messages, why would you expect that they'd read notes?

That seems more complicated than just adding the info in the commit message. It's not like Git doesn't have flags for trimming commit messages when reading them (--oneline).