thomasbabuj / aicommits

A CLI that writes your git commit messages for you with AI

AI Commits

A CLI that writes your git commit messages for you with AI. Never write a commit message again.

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Installation and Usage

1. Install the CLI:

   npm install -g aicommits

2. Retrieve your API key from OpenAI

   Note: If you haven't already, you'll have to create an account and set up billing.

3. Set the key so aicommits can use it:

   echo "OPENAI_KEY=<your token>" >> ~/.aicommits

4. You're ready to go!

   Run aicommits in any Git repo and it will generate a commit message for you.

How it works

This CLI tool runs git diff to grab all the latest changes, sends them to OpenAI's GPT-3, then returns the AI generated commit message.

Video coming soon where I rebuild it from scratch to show you how to easily build your own CLI tools powered by AI.

Limitations

• Only supports git diffs of up to 200 lines of code for now
• Does not support conventional commits

The next version of the CLI, version 2, will address both of these limitations as well as the tasks below!

Future tasks

• Add a debugging flag to troubleshoot OpenAI responses
• Add support for conventional commits as a flag that users can enable
• Add support for diffs greater than 200 lines by grabbing the diff per file
• Add support for a flag that can auto-accept
• Add ability to specify a commit message from inside aicommit
• Solve latency issue (use a githook to asynchronously run gpt3 call on every git add, store the result in a temp file (or in the .git folder)
• Use gpt-3-tokenizer
• Add automated github releases
• Add opt-in emoji flag
• Add opt-in languages flag
• Build landing page for the 2.0 launch