More often than not, a novice developer can create branch names and commit messages which is difficult to understand, making things harder to track for which story or defect a particular change or commit is done. Thus creating a bottleneck to understand and debug the issues in future iterations.
In my projects, I follow the below rules while creating branches and in commit message formats.
Branch Naming Conventions :
If it is a new feature branch, create a branch with :
feature/<story-number>-<one-line-summary-of-feature>
If it is a bugfix branch, create a branch with :
bugfix/<defect-number>-<one-line-summary-of-feature>
All branch names in small-cases
Commit Message Conventions :
<Story Number> | One line summary of story
<Defect Number> | One line summary of defect
This maintains consistency across the git repositoryand it becomes easier to understand which commit is for which story/defect, making merge conflicts resolution easier.