It writes more informative commits than I could ever make so I’m just reading what it says and mostly copy/pasting completely most of the time, I write all of the changes I’ve made into an LLM with a large context window and it write a very detailed commit not just with a title but with bullet points describing each of the changes precisely

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    1 year ago

    If it’s faster to get an AI to write your commit messages than to write them yourself, your commit messages are too long. They should be one sentence.

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      Strong disagree. Commit messages that are only one sentence long should be reserved for truly trivial things. Signed, someone who regularly comes back to 18+ year old commits and enjoys the valuable details that would have been lost.

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        1 year ago

        How about prefixing your commit with a ticket number?

        If a commit message has too much information, then the commit has too much changes