git-ai-commit 1.0.9

A project to generate commit messages using AI

🤖 git-ai-commit

Tl;DR

• AI that writes your commit messages.

• A CLI and git hook that summarizes your changes every time you run git commit.

• Integrates with the pre-commit framework, working alongside all your git hooks.

📺 Usage

git-ai-commit currently support the following LLM providers...

• Open AI: gpt-4o-mini(default), gpt-4, gpt-3.5, and more...

• Anthropic: claude-3-haiku, claude-3-sonnet, claude-3-opus

  • Wiki: Setup Anthropic Model

• Local Ollama: llama3, mistral, phi-3, gemma, and more..

  • Wiki: Using local Ollama LLM model

🚀 Getting Started

1. Install the git-ai-commit tool via pip

pip install git-ai-commit

git-ai-commit --version # verify installation

2. Start configuring your tool

git-ai-commit config --setup

3. Your done, happy committing! Check out our fun range of command, the LLM can even help you, just run...

git-ai-commit help-ai [question?]

# or get help the ol fashion way

git-ai-commit --help

⚡️ Quick Start: Setup Git Hook

To quickly setup your prepare-commit-msg git hook, execute the command below.

Caution, this will override any existing prepare-commit-msg hooks you may have. To coordinate multiple git hook, check out the pre-commit framework.

git-ai-commit hook --setup

That is all, your good to go! Now every time you run git commit, let AI present you with a commit message.

🪝 Integrate with pre-commit framework

git-ai-commit integrates easily with your other git hook using the pre-commit framework. Follow the instructions below to get set up.

1. Install the pre-commit git hooks framework

brew install pre-commit
pre-commit --version 

2. Create a .pre-commit-config.yaml files and add the following config.

touch .pre-commit-config.yaml 

# .pre-commit-config.yaml 

default_install_hook_types: 
  # make sure you include `prepare-commit-msg` in `default_install_hook_types`
  - prepare-commit-msg
repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/the-cafe/git-ai-commit
    rev: v1.0.9
    hooks:
    -   id: git-ai-commit

3. Based on the config above, install your pre-commit hook scripts.

pre-commit install 

4. Setup your OpenAI key, see their docs for help.

git-ai-commit config --openai-key=...

🛠️ CLI Commands & Options

✨ git-ai-commit config

Display your current config settings. Option flags can be used to configure various settings in your configuration. For example...

git-ai-commit config

git-ai-commit config --openai-key=... --model=gpt-4o-mini

• -k --openai-key

  Set or update the OpenAI API key to access their GPT models.

• -a --anthropic-key

  Set or update the Anthropic API key to access their Claude models.

• -m --model

  default: "gpt-4o-mini"

  Select a model to power our tool from our supported provider. To use a Ollama model, prefix ollama/<model>.

• -ou --ollama-url

  default: "http://localhost:11434/api/chat"

  Set the URL for interacting with your local Ollama models.

• -s --setup

  Config your git hook, model, and API keys via the NUX flow.

• -l --logger

  default: false

  A toggle for enabling logs that are saved to a local file - .git/ai_commit_message.log. This was intended to be used as a local debug tool.

• -r --reset

  Resets your entire config settings to the default state. This will reset all settings, including API keys and model.

• -p --prefix

  Set a prefix for the generate commit messages.

• -ml --max-length

  Set the character limit for the LLM response. In our testing, the greater the limit the more details are included in the commit messages.

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🔎 git-ai-commit summarize

Get a quick summary of your local changes

git-ai-commit summarize

• -u --unstaged

  Summarize your local unstaged changes.

• -d --diff

  Provide a .diff file from the local file system to summarize

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📌 git-ai-commit help, -h

Displays a list of available command and options to help you setup our tool.

git-ai-commit help # -h

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🪝 git-ai-commit hook

Manage and setup git-ai-commit as a prepare-commit-msg git hook.

git-ai-commit hook --setup

• -s --setup

  Adds a git hook by generating a .git/hooks/prepare-commit-msg script in your git repo.

• -sh --setup-husky

  Integrate our hook into your husky git hooks by generating a .husky/prepare-commit-msg script in your git repo.

• -r --remove

  Removes the git hook.

• -x --run

  Executes the custom logic for our git hook. This option was intended to only run from the prepare-commit-msg git hook.

🤝 Wanna Contribute?

Do you love our tool and wanna support us? Drop us a star 🌟

Have some feedback on what we could do better? Create a issue we'll respond in 24hrs we promise 😄

Wanna contribute code and improve our product, check out our Local Development Wiki to get started.

Right now we're focused on

• Improving our prompting strategy to generate the best commit message possible

• Super charge our CLI to support broad developer use cases and build the best interface we can

• Build some tests

🎉 Fun Facts

• In this repository, every commit prefixed with ✨ was generated by AI.