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On a personal project I've decided to do the opposite and every commit message is meow or mlem or hisssss or purrrr etc

Have you considered whether you really need to use git? You could just take regular snapshots if you are concerned about needing to revert/undo. Or use a tool like git wip to automatically make commits every time you save, if you really like the git UI.

I mean, git is useful even without "human-readable" commit messages.... 99% of my commit messages are complete garbage ("fixes" "farming, music and shit" "update" ".", etc.)

but in practice it's not a huge problem, IDE shows you the commit history of a specific file so bisecting changes is easy, there's only a few entries with the roughly correct date modifying the file you're looking for :D

"low quality code/commit messages" hasn't really slowed me down so far and probably won't in the future either

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