AI Commits

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

--- ## Setup > The minimum supported version of Node.js is the latest v14. Check your Node.js version with `node --version`. 1. Install _aicommits_: ```sh npm install -g aicommits ``` 2. Retrieve your API key from [OpenAI](https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys) > 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: ```sh aicommits config set OPENAI_KEY= ``` This will create a `.aicommits` file in your home directory. ### Upgrading Check the installed version with: ``` aicommits --version ``` If it's not the [latest version](https://github.com/Nutlope/aicommits/releases/latest), run: ```sh npm update -g aicommits ``` ## Usage ### CLI mode You can call `aicommits` directly to generate a commit message for your staged changes: ```sh git add aicommits ``` `aicommits` passes down unknown flags to `git commit`, so you can pass in [`commit` flags](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit). For example, you can stage all changes in tracked files with as you commit: ```sh aicommits --all # or -a ``` > 👉 **Tip:** Use the `aic` alias if `aicommits` is too long for you. #### Generate multiple recommendations Sometimes the recommended commit message isn't the best so you want it to generate a few to pick from. You can generate multiple commit messages at once by passing in the `--generate ` flag, where 'i' is the number of generated messages: ```sh aicommits --generate # or -g ``` > Warning: this uses more tokens, meaning it costs more. ### Git hook You can also integrate _aicommits_ with Git via the [`prepare-commit-msg`](https://git-scm.com/docs/githooks#_prepare_commit_msg) hook. This lets you use Git like you normally would, and edit the commit message before committing. #### Install In the Git repository you want to install the hook in: ```sh aicommits hook install ``` #### Uninstall In the Git repository you want to uninstall the hook from: ```sh aicommits hook uninstall ``` #### Usage 1. Stage your files and commit: ```sh git add git commit # Only generates a message when it's not passed in ``` > If you ever want to write your own message instead of generating one, you can simply pass one in: `git commit -m "My message"` 2. Aicommits will generate the commit message for you and pass it back to Git. Git will open it with the [configured editor](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/getting-started-with-git/associating-text-editors-with-git) for you to review/edit it. 3. Save and close the editor to commit! ## Configuration ### Reading a configuration value To retrieve a configuration option, use the command: ```sh aicommits config get ``` For example, to retrieve the API key, you can use: ```sh aicommits config get OPENAI_KEY ``` You can also retrieve multiple configuration options at once by separating them with spaces: ```sh aicommits config get OPENAI_KEY generate ``` ### Setting a configuration value To set a configuration option, use the command: ```sh aicommits config set = ``` For example, to set the API key, you can use: ```sh aicommits config set OPENAI_KEY= ``` You can also set multiple configuration options at once by separating them with spaces, like ```sh aicommits config set OPENAI_KEY= generate=3 locale=en ``` ### Options #### OPENAI_KEY Required The OpenAI API key. You can retrieve it from [OpenAI API Keys page](https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys). #### locale Default: `en` The locale to use for the generated commit messages. Consult the list of codes in: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes. #### generate Default: `1` The number of commit messages to generate to pick from. Note, this will use more tokens as it generates more results. #### proxy Set a HTTP/HTTPS proxy to use for requests. To clear the proxy option, you can use the command (note the empty value after the equals sign): ```sh aicommits config set proxy= ``` #### model Default: `gpt-3.5-turbo` The Chat Completions (`/v1/chat/completions`) model to use. Consult the list of models available in the [OpenAI Documentation](https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/model-endpoint-compatibility). > Tip: If you have access, try upgrading to [`gpt-4`](https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4) for next-level code analysis. It can handle double the input size, but comes at a higher cost. Check out OpenAI's website to learn more. #### timeout The timeout for network requests to the OpenAI API in milliseconds. Default: `10000` (10 seconds) ```sh aicommits config set timeout=20000 # 20s ``` ## How it works This CLI tool runs `git diff` to grab all your latest code 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. ## Maintainers - **Hassan El Mghari**: [@Nutlope](https://github.com/Nutlope) [](https://twitter.com/nutlope) - **Hiroki Osame**: [@privatenumber](https://github.com/privatenumber) [](https://twitter.com/privatenumbr) ## Contributing If you want to help fix a bug or implement a feature in [Issues](https://github.com/Nutlope/aicommits/issues), checkout the [Contribution Guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) to learn how to setup and test the project.