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Jun 6, 2026 · Fundamentals

Stop Using Conventional Commits: Why Scope, Not Type, Should Lead Git Messages

The article argues that Conventional Commits is a harmful anti‑pattern because it puts the optional type before the far more important scope, promises automatic changelogs and version bumps that don’t work, and proposes the proven scoped‑commit format used by Linux, Git, Go and others.