I am confused. Am I commenting my own document now?

hopes-and-dreams/Anke.md

+##Anke's hopes and dreams for the course
+
+I am interested in **archives** so I would enjoy *talking* about digital/digitized archives and projects such as the *__Venice Time Machine__*
+"How does digitization change how we think and work as historians?"  
+Is this working..?

[Danny McDonald]

If you mean, 'what am I doing when I write a commit message?', then yes. You're describing what your changes contain, which makes it much easier to browse through a project's history and find some specific point in time.