Comment by shuntress

Well, it is all local until you push so you can do whatever you want.

With that said, it obviously is not meaningless at a technical level because without the commit there is nothing to push or merge. On top of that, at a non-technical level it can be extremely helpful to record some plain-english prose to describe why you are changing something. If you find yourself doing that too often you need to narrow your definition of what constitutes a "change" and/or be more discerning about what you work on simultaneously.

Out of curiosity, if you do not use git, what do you use for version control and change-management?