Comment by somebehemoth

You underestimated the impact of altering commit messages of millions of users? I find that very hard to believe. Commit messages are sacred to many developers. This has been true for me with multiple teams and multiple developers for years.

If you caught the bug in testing, how did the bug make it into production? Are you saying your process correctly identified the bug and your people decided to ship it anyways?

With all due respect, your responses don't make sense unless we view both your team and its processes as inexperienced and lacking robustness.