Stop Using Conventional Commits — A Developer’s Critique

Originally published on Sumner Evans — June 5, 2026

Summary

Sumner Evans published a detailed critique arguing that Conventional Commits is an “actively bad standard” that encourages focus on the wrong things and fails to deliver on its promises. The core argument is that Conventional Commits prioritizes the type of change (fix, feat, chore, etc.) over the scope of the change, when in reality scope — the subject of the change — is the most important part of a commit message.

The post argues that despite being adopted by major projects like Angular, Electron, and Vite, the standard creates a misguided hierarchy that doesn’t serve developers or end-users well. The critique sparked a massive discussion on Hacker News with 249 points and 198 comments, showing strong community sentiment around commit message conventions and developer workflow preferences.

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