That's unfortunate, and I think your experience reflects most places I've worked at too. It doesn't have to be that way though; technical leadership on a team can choose to care about this kind of thing and coach their colleagues into caring more about writing communicative commit messages.

To any technical leaders reading this comment, I encourage you to choose to care about this :)

Here's the post I always share on this: https://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-mess...