Your future self—and your teammates—will thank you for writing great commit messages. In this talk, we’ll explore how well-structured commit messages can be a long-term investment, improving collaboration, debugging, and project history readability. You’ll learn practical techniques to write meaningful commits and discover a built-in Git feature that helps enforce consistency and alignment with your project’s workflow. Whether you’re working solo or contributing to a large team, this session will equip you with strategies to make your commits work for you, not against you.