I make really small and really frequent commits. Like I'll commit all changes every 10 min regardless of if a feature is done or not, and basically use commits like an undo button.

I still use git history a lot (per file history usually) but even when browsing years and hundreds of commits into the past, I don't really need detailed/thoughtful messages to find the change I'm looking for. Binary search plus those 2 or 3 word message hints are lightning fast. And the number of times I commit vastly outweighs the number of times I browse the history.

When it comes to documentation and other people, feature-branches are my "OK I fully finished this thing; here's a summary". I'm also not afraid to squash a ton of useless commits together right before making a PR.

TDLR; spending more than 3 sec doesn't help future me or current me, so it's a waste of time