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            "value": "\n          <p>It's shown in the examples of the <a href=\"\/daily\/2023\/11\/24\/are-conventional-commits-worth-it\">conventional commits specification<\/a> as part of the optional footer data.<\/p>\n\n<p>But is it useful?<\/p>\n\n<p>It can be if your issue tracker is linked to your Git repository and you can click the issue ID in a commit message and see the issue.<\/p>\n\n<p>But, how often do teams change issue-tracking software or the project is passed to a different company that uses a different issue tracker?<\/p>\n\n<p>That makes the issue IDs that reference the old IDs useless as no one has access to the issues it references.<\/p>\n\n<p>I'd recommend putting as much information in the commit message itself and not relying on it being in an external source, like an issue tracker.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Git log and commit messages will remain even if a different issue tracker is used, or a different team starts working on the project, and that additional information isn't lost.<\/p>\n\n<p>I'm not against putting the issue ID in the commit message but don't do it instead of writing a descriptive commit message.<\/p>\n\n        ",
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