Commit names should give an idea of the nature and context of the change that has been done. The more details, the better! The commit name should be as unique and recognizable as your commit itself. There are multitude of articles on the web regarding commit messages, here are two that you can find useful: How to Write a Git Commit Message and What makes a good commit message?.
Bad commit messages give pretty much no context:
add cli newfix useless codefix code review commentsA good commit message explains what is done, and why. Here’s an example:
Make Source.indexOf(ByteString) significantly faster
Previously the algorithm that did this was extremely inefficient, and
had worst case runtime of O(N * S * S) for N is size of the bytestring
and S is the number of segments.
The new code runs in O(N * S). It accomplishes this by not starting
each search at the first segment, which could occur many times when
called by RealBufferedSource.
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