A CLI tool that automatically writes commit messages for you.

Miguel Piedrafita

Last update: Jan 6, 2023

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Utilities auto-commit

Overview

Automagically-generated commit messages

A CLI tool that generates commit messages from your staged changes, built in Rust and using OpenAI's Codex.

Installation

You can install auto-commit by running the following command in your terminal.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/m1guelpf/auto-commit/main/install.sh | sh -

Or, if you're an arch user, you can download it from the AUR using

yay -S auto-commit

You may need to close and reopen your terminal after installation. Alternatively, you can download the binary corresponding to your OS from the latest release.

Usage

auto-commit uses OpenAI's Codex, which is currently in private beta. To use it, you'll first need to to request access to Codex. Once you get access, grab an API key from your dashboard, and save it to OPENAI_API_KEY as follows (you can also save it in your bash/zsh profile for persistance between sessions).

export OPENAI_API_KEY='sk-XXXXXXXX'

Once you have configured your environment, stage some changes by running, for example, git add ., and then run auto-commit.

Of course, auto-commit also includes some options, for editing the message before commiting, or just printing the message to the terminal.

$ auto-commit --help
Automagically generate commit messages.

Usage: auto-commit [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -v, --verbose...  More output per occurrence
  -q, --quiet...    Less output per occurrence
      --dry-run     Output the generated message, but don't create a commit.
  -r, --review      Edit the generated commit message before committing.
  -h, --help        Print help information
  -V, --version     Print version information

Develop

Make sure you have the latest version of rust installed (use rustup). Then, you can build the project by running cargo build, and run it with cargo run.

License

This project is open-sourced under the MIT license. See the License file for more information.

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Comments

How to reduce prompt/ completion length?

auto-commit
Loading Data...
▗ Analyzing Codebase...thread 'main' panicked at 'Couldn't complete prompt.: Api(ErrorMessage { message: "This model's maximum context length is 8001 tokens, however you requested 11523 tokens (9523 in your prompt; 2000 for the completion). Please reduce your prompt; or completion length.", error_type: "invalid_request_error" })', src/main.rs:137:10
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
▖ Analyzing Codebase...%

I assume my codebase && commit history is too big and exceeds open AI limitations. Is there a way to reduce codebase analysis?

opened by metart43 1

Add option to skip commit confirmation.

Currently the prompt asks for a "yes" or "no" to decided whether to make a commit or not. It would be nice to have a flag that skips this question.

opened by trevorhere 0
Read `OPENAI_API_KEY` from config

I've used a handful of tools that use codex, and so far most have been able to read the API key from a file, as well as ENV. This is pretty convenient, since I've been able to reference a few of them to the same ~/.config/openaiapirc file, while others have their own folder within ~/.config.

opened by wallentx 0
Common installation expectations
Hi! Thanks for this cool project.

I discovered, and installed this tool from the AUR, and after installation, I couldn't identify what files had been installed as a result. Files installed via pacman, or from the AUR via a helper are typically discoverable by running pacman -Qql auto-commit, where you'd see the path of the new binary/lib/service/doc as a result of the installation, but that query returned nothing after installing auto-commit.

I looked at the PKGBUILD and saw that it was executing install.sh during the package() step. This works fine, but results in some unexpected behavior:

New files added to the system are not known to pacman, so the user cannot query them, nor can the files be removed during an uninstall

The install.sh script suggests placing the executable binary in ~/.bin, which is not a standard directory (though maybe common? I've always used a ~/bin, and haven't seen ~/.bin used before) installing them)

Running makepkg on the PKGBUILD file locally results in a failure, as it appears to contain some errors

Installing this from the AUR resulted in a pre-compiled binary being installed, which wasn't what I was expecting (though you could say that I should probably be reviewing every PKGBUILD before

I normally expect the AUR package name to inform me as to what will be executed:

<pkg-name>: I'll be building a tarball of the latest release

<pkg-name>-git: I'll be building from the HEAD of the main branch

<pkg-name>-bin: I'll be pulling a pre-built binary from the latest release

<pkg-name>-bin-git/<pkg-name>-nightly(-bin): I'll be pulling a pre-built binary from some build process that happens more frequently than tagged releases (pre-release/dev/nightly)

I'm not at all suggesting that any of those things are hard rules or anything, but rather I just wanted to open the conversation. I created a draft PR that contains some possible configurations to see if you felt there was a particular one that you might favor, or all if you'd like. https://github.com/m1guelpf/auto-commit/pull/10 I didn't do any workflow modification since this was more of an exploratory effort.
opened by wallentx 0