Commitly-cli 1.1.4

CLI tool to generate structured Git commit messages using AI.

commitly-cli 🚀🤖

Never write "final commit" or "modifs 2" again in your Git history.

commitly-cli is a stylish command-line interface powered by Rich, built on top of the commitly library. It generates smart, structured, and elegant Git commit messages for you — so you can focus on your code.

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🧠 Why commitly-cli?

You run git commit -m "", then… you freeze.

😩 You’re thinking: “What should I write here?”

With commitly-cli, let the AI do it for you.
It reads your staged changes (git diff --cached), understands what you’ve done, and crafts a clean, contextual message.

Think of it as your Git copilot ✈️

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🧰 Requirements

• Python 3.7+
• Git installed

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🧪 Installation

Install via pip:

pip install commitly-cli 

Or clone it locally:

git clone https://github.com/Tostenn/commitly-cli.git
cd commitly-cli
python main.py --help

Make sure commitly is also installed:

pip install commitly

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✨ Key Features

• 🧠 AI-powered commit message generation
• 🔍 Automatic Git diff analysis
• 🧩 Intelligent commit splitting: breaks complex changes into logical commits
• 💅 Fully customizable format, tone, and content
• 🏷️ Auto-injects ticket numbers (e.g., #42)
• ✅ Optional confirmation mode with message editing (commit.txt)
• 🔄 Integrated Git flow (add, commit, push)
• 🎨 Beautiful output with Rich
• 🤖 Bonus: a fancy logo just for fun 😎

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🛠️ Basic Usage

commitly-cli --add . --confirm

This will:

• Stage all files
• Generate a commit message using AI
• Save it in commit.txt for manual review
• Ask for confirmation before committing

With a ticket

commitly-cli --add . --confirm --ticket "#25"

The ticket number is automatically included in your message.

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🚀 Advanced Example

commitly-cli \
  --add script.py README.md \
  --style my-style.txt \
  --format my-format.txt \
  --recommandation my-hints.txt \
  --ticket #42 \
  --push \
  --confirm

This will:

• Add selected files
• Use your custom style/format/guidelines
• Link to a ticket
• Let you review and edit the message
• Commit and push it to the remote repo

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✏️ Need to tweak the message?

When using --confirm, a commit.txt file is created. You can edit it before finalizing.

Then continue with:

python main.py --continue

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🧪 Upcoming: --dry-run mode (in the next version)

Preview the generated message without making a real commit:

commitly-cli --add . --ticket "#123" --dry-run

This feature will let you test your message templates safely. (Currently under development – stay tuned!)

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🔍 Available Options

Argument	Description
-a, --add	Files to stage (default: .)
-f, --format	Path to commit message format file
-s, --style	Path to writing style definition
-r, --recommandation	Tips or constraints to guide the AI
-t, --ticket	Ticket number to include (e.g. #42)
-p, --push	Push after committing
--confirm	Enables message review/edit before committing
-c, --continue	Commits using the content of commit.txt
--dry-run	(Coming soon) Simulates message generation
--show-format	Display default format
--show-style	Display default style
--show-recommandation	Display default guidance rules
--del-temp	Delete commit.txt after use

💡 Tip: use --add ! to skip staging entirely.

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✍️ Customization

Fine-tune commit generation with your own:

• style.txt: tone (formal, technical, playful...)
• format.txt: structure (type, module, message...)
• recommandation.txt: additional rules or reminders

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🧪 Common Scenarios

🧹 Quick fix

commitly-cli --add . --ticket "#123" --confirm

Easy: auto-stage, tag, suggest, review, commit.

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🧱 Large commit with consistency

commitly-cli \
  --add . \
  --style formal.txt \
  --format conventional.txt \
  --recommandation rules.txt \
  --ticket "#88" \
  --push \
  --confirm

Maintain consistency across big code changes like a pro 💼

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💥 Fun Fact: commitly-cli wrote itself

This very project is the best demo of commitly-cli.

🛠️ The first 2 commits were hand-written.

From the third commit onward, commitly-cli took the wheel. At first, it wasn't great. Here's the actual result from its first attempt:

git commit -m "```"

Yes — triple backticks as the commit message. Why? Because the training example used "commit message here"… and the AI took that literally 😅

Since then, it's grown a lot — smarter, more structured, and reliable.

Want to see the evolution?

Check out the Git history: git log

It’s like watching an AI grow from 🐣 to 🧙‍♂️

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📦 Config File (no more long commands!) (Coming soon)

You can define your default options once in a config file to avoid repeating them every time.

✅ Supported config file names:

• .commitly-cli.json
• commitly-cli.json

Place it in the root of your Git project or in your home directory.

📄 Example:

{
  "add": ".",
  "confirm": true,
  "ticket": "#88",
  "style": "my-style.txt",
  "format": "my-format.txt",
  "recommandation": "my-rules.txt",
  "push": true
}

Once the file is detected, you can run simply:

commitly-cli

Command-line arguments always override the config file.

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🔮 Next Steps

🧪 In development:

• 💡 --dry-run: preview message output (no real commit)
• 📁 Smarter file selection (relevant diffs only)
• 🧠 Git hooks (pre-commit) integration
• ✍️ Suggest tags/branches
• 🎨 Lightweight web UI
• 🧩 Extension for Visual Studio Code

Want more? Open an issue or contribute!

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🤝 Built on

🧠 commitly: The engine that turns your Git diff into a smart message. commitly-cli is just the steering wheel.

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💬 Final Word

Still using:

git commit -m "change"
git commit -m "test again"
git commit -m "final final final"

Upgrade your commit game. Make your Git history shine like a pro 💎

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🐛 Issues? Feedback?

Open an issue — or reach out directly.