The relationship between commit size and commit message size

1 · Erik Bernhardsson · Feb. 26, 2015, 5 a.m.
Wow I guess it was more than a year ago that I tweeted this. Crazy how time flies by. Anyway, here’s my rationale: When I update one line of code I feel like I have to put in a long explanation about its side effects, why it’s fully backwards compatible, and why it fixes some issue #xyz. When I refactor 500 lines of code, I get too lazy to write anything sensible, so I just put “refactoring FooBarController”. Note: don’t do at home! I decided to plot the relationship for Luigi: The plot is...