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That was the FIRST commit to that repo. Not that it's great reasoning, but really how much info does 'Initial commit.' convey as opposed to 'asdf'?

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For a start it would have stopped me mistaking the first commit for the last commit. More importantly, where you see the commit message next to lines of code[1], "initial commit" hints that you can assume the line came with an import or boilerplate.

1. https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser/blame/master/index....

If you clicked on the 86446f74

You would have gotten: https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser/commit/86446f74d5c6...

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