OpenCommit

Follow the bird

GPT CLI to auto-generate impressive commits in 1 second

Killing lame commits with AI 🤯🔫

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All the commits in this repo are done with OpenCommit — look into the commits to see how OpenCommit works. Emoji and long commit description text is configurable.

Setup

1. Install OpenCommit globally to use in any repository:

   npm install -g opencommit

2. Get your API key from OpenAI. Make sure you add payment details, so API works.

3. Set the key to OpenCommit config:

   opencommit config set OPENAI_API_KEY=<your_api_key>

   Your api key is stored locally in ~/.opencommit config file.

Usage

You can call OpenCommit directly to generate a commit message for your staged changes:

git add <files...>
opencommit

You can also use the oc shortcut:

git add <files...>
oc

Features

Preface commits with emoji 🤠

GitMoji convention is used.

To add emoji:

oc config set emoji=true

To remove emoji:

oc config set emoji=false

Postface commits with descriptions of changes

To add descriptions:

oc config set description=true

To remove description:

oc config set description=false

Git hook

You can set OpenCommit as Git prepare-commit-msg hook. Hook integrates with you IDE Source Control and allows you edit the message before commit.

To set the hook:

oc hook set

To unset the hook:

oc hook unset

To use the hook:

git add <files...>
git commit

Or follow the process of your IDE Source Control feature, when it calls git commit command — OpenCommit will integrate into the flow.

Payments

You pay for your own requests to OpenAI API. OpenCommit uses ChatGPT official model, that is ~10x times cheaper than GPT-3 and ~6x times cheaper than GPT-4.