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Setup
The minimum supported version of Node.js is the latest v14. Check your Node.js version with
node --version.
Install aicommit2:
npm install -g aicommit2
Retrieve your API key from OpenAI
Note: If you haven't already, you'll have to create an account and set up billing.
Set the key so aicommit2 can use it:
aicommit2 config set OPENAI_KEY=<your token>
This will create a
.aicommit2file in your home directory.
Upgrading
Check the installed version with:
aicommit2 --versionIf it's not the latest version, run:
npm update -g aicommit2Usage
CLI mode
You can call aicommit2 directly to generate a commit message for your staged changes:
git add <files...>
aicommit2aicommit2 passes down unknown flags to git commit, so you can pass in commit flags.
For example, you can stage all changes in tracked files with as you commit:
aicommit2 --all # or -a👉 Tip: Use the
aicalias ifaicommit2is 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 <i> flag, where 'i' is the number of generated messages:
aicommit2 --generate <i> # or -g <i>Warning: this uses more tokens, meaning it costs more.
Generating Conventional Commits
If you'd like to generate Conventional Commits, you can use the --type flag followed by conventional. This will prompt aicommit2 to format the commit message according to the Conventional Commits specification:
aicommit2 --type conventional # or -t conventionalThis feature can be useful if your project follows the Conventional Commits standard or if you're using tools that rely on this commit format.
Git hook
You can also integrate aicommit2 with Git via the 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:
aicommit2 hook installUninstall
In the Git repository you want to uninstall the hook from:
aicommit2 hook uninstallUsage
Stage your files and commit:
git add <files...> 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"aicommit2 will generate the commit message for you and pass it back to Git. Git will open it with the configured editor for you to review/edit it.
Save and close the editor to commit!
Configuration
Reading a configuration value
To retrieve a configuration option, use the command:
aicommit2 config get <key>For example, to retrieve the API key, you can use:
aicommit2 config get OPENAI_KEYYou can also retrieve multiple configuration options at once by separating them with spaces:
aicommit2 config get OPENAI_KEY generateSetting a configuration value
To set a configuration option, use the command:
aicommit2 config set <key>=<value>For example, to set the API key, you can use:
aicommit2 config set OPENAI_KEY=<your-api-key>You can also set multiple configuration options at once by separating them with spaces, like
aicommit2 config set OPENAI_KEY=<your-api-key> generate=3 locale=enOptions
OPENAI_KEY
Required
The OpenAI API key. You can retrieve it from OpenAI API Keys page.
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):
aicommit2 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.
Tip: If you have access, try upgrading to
gpt-4for 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)
aicommit2 config set timeout=20000 # 20smax-length
The maximum character length of the generated commit message.
Default: 50
aicommit2 config set max-length=100type
Default: "" (Empty string)
The type of commit message to generate. Set this to "conventional" to generate commit messages that follow the Conventional Commits specification:
aicommit2 config set type=conventionalYou can clear this option by setting it to an empty string:
aicommit2 config set type=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
Hiroki Osame: @privatenumber
Contributing
If you want to help fix a bug or implement a feature in Issues, checkout the Contribution Guide to learn how to setup and test the project.