How to tell this person nicely, to provide meaningful commit messages?

I know it took me probably for ever to learn it myself, and not all of them are meaningful, but come on ...

Come on! Commit to your messages!

Also... Welcome to DevRant :]

Just tell them straight up, but do it with a friendly tone. Also, make sure to explain why you need meaningfull messages, what a meaningfull message is and that you don't expect them to get it right at once but do expect them to at least try.

Oh, and also: compliment them when they do get it right.

Yeah, explain why they're useful, not just for you but for them too

"You can't just put 'git commit' as your commit message.. we may need those later to see why things changed. at least put the ticket number in please."

I learned to message my commits day 1 but, it's hard figuring out name that tells who's looking at it what I did

Server-side git hook mate.

Rejecting pushes with janky messages would do it.

Tell him to explain to you each change on each commit hehe it could work 🤣