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All the context from the issue that doesn't fit in a sentence or three?. Of course it depends, if the issue doesn't have context it's not important, but things like "who requested/reported this", "who was involved in decisions made", "what alternatives were considered and why where they rejected" might not necessarily fit in the commit message but exist in an issue.

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If there's stuff that's valuable, I'd prefer to see it pasted into the commit message -- far less likely for links to get broken.

If it's long term valuable, i.e. "I considered obvious, attractive alternative algorithm X but it failed horribly because of Y", I'd prefer that to go in a comment in the code instead. Far more likely to still be noticed in three years time, after the code's been run through two different auto-formatters and otherwise mangled around.

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