>Slightly meta: Turning off the syntax highlighting entirely seems a bit hardcore to me, however, I always read each commit I do via git diff / pull request view, which does not have syntax highlighting (other than red/green for removals/additions), and I always strive to make the diff look good for each commit (which means, doing one thing at a time in each commit)

...alas, some projects require 1 commit per pr, max...

...then again, if you do a 1:1 commit:change as default the rebase msg is much easier to structure :)