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As someone whos commit message are: fix, fix again, this hopefully works, again.

I am sure AI cannot even glims the frustration I feel committing these commits.

You can argue, that these messages are as poor as the code that I have written; but don't tell me you haven't been there -- and if you have please tell me your secret

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My secret is intent (and magit). If I’ going to write code, I already have a few goals in mind. That’s what I put in the commit message. Magit is for I did other stuff, so I can stage individual hunks/lines instead of whole files.

My favorite git command is git commit --amend, my second is git rebase. Until you push, you don't need to keep adding new pointless commits

Actually I wish that we had two branches in parallel, one with cleaned up commits, another with how the software were actually edited. But we need tooling for that

If you go all the way to where the cleaned-up version is a squash merge, as so many unfortunately do, we already have that: regular, non-squashed merges.

If you don't go that far, you could mimic something like it with sub-branches and merge commits for each one into your working branch, but I imagine it would be annoying to handle at that granularity.

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