You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you’ve used. It may have been the enforced commit format for an open source project you contributed to. A lot of people swear by it. I swear at it. Even though it is used by a large number of popular open source projects , Conventional Commits is an actively bad standard which encourages focus on the wrong things and fails to deliver on its promises . Focus Failure Conventional Commits promises to add semantic meaning to commit messages to aid developers and end-users in understanding the changes made in a commit. However, Conventional Commits fails to do this in spectacular fashion. To demonstrate this, let’s look at the anatomy of a conventional commit.…