Just Follow This for Git Commit Messages and Collaboration Gets Easier

Agreed—just adding a prefix makes git log actually enjoyable to read.

When our team first set conventions, we started by nailing down feat/fix, and it really paid off. In particular, if you can’t tell fix and chore apart, auto-generating release notes turns into a mess, and later you have to fix everything by hand lol. But for the one-line 'why,' don’t force it as a rule—it’s better to ask in review. When you force it, everyone just writes 'update.'