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Useful things to have in a commit message:

- Test plan when there's no unit test (describes how to test that the patch actually works).

- Task ID (link to whatever is used to track tasks/bugs, as there's usually more context there).

- Blame rev when a patch fixes a bug, it's useful to know which commit introduced the bug.



Blame rev is very useful for back/forward porting fixes.




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