What are some traits of a 'good' commit message?

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Published on 2010-04-12T02:24:18Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 2:33 UTC
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What are some good practices to follow when writing a commit message to a source code repository (aside from committing a non-empty message)? How do I write a good commit message and still keep it relatively short?

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