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Re:The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a hig... by skissane on Monday October 08, 2018 @08:51PM (#18172542)
Maybe sometimes the mental effort of writing a commit message just isn't worth it.

At work, I try to be a good boy and write proper commit messages, always.

On personal projects, I often just use "." or something equally meaningless. Sometimes I can't be bothered explaining myself, and on a personal project nobody is going to be burned by it but me.

Re:The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a hig... by craftyguy on Monday October 08, 2018 @09:55PM (#18172787)
Well... except in this case they referenced the repo in a paper, so of course folks are going to have a look, fork it, play with it, etc.