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👨🏻‍💻 Supercharging Git Commits with AI: A Developer's Journey

As a developer, writing meaningful commit messages is crucial for maintaining a clean and understandable git history. However, it's often a tedious task that interrupts the flow of coding. That's why I decided to automate this process using OpenAI's GPT and Windsurf IDE.

🤔 The Problem

We've all been there - staring at the terminal trying to craft the perfect commit message that follows conventional commits format, describes the changes accurately, and remains concise. It's especially challenging when you're in the middle of a coding session and don't want to break your concentration.

🧑🏻‍🏭 The Solution

Using Windsurf IDE and OpenAI's GPT-3.5, I created a streamlined workflow that automatically:

🤔 Analyzes git diff to understand changes

Generates meaningful commit messages following conventional commits format
Adds appropriate emojis based on the type of change
Commits and pushes changes without interruption
The Implementation
The solution consists of a simple shell script integrated with Make commands. Here's how it works:

🧙🏻‍♀️ The script captures the git diff of staged changes

Sends this diff to GPT-3.5 with specific instructions to generate a conventional commit message
Processes the response to add relevant emojis (e.g., ✨ for features, 🐛 for fixes)
Automatically commits and pushes the changes
Example messages it generates:

feat:✨ Add authentication middleware for API endpoints
fix:🐛 Resolve memory leak in WebSocket connections
docs:📚 Update deployment guide with Docker instructions

✚ Benefits

This automation has significantly improved my development workflow:

  1. Time Saving: No more context switching to write commit messages
  2. Consistency: All commits follow the same format and style
  3. Quality: Messages are descriptive and focus on the what and why
  4. Flow: Maintain coding momentum without interruptions

🚀 Getting Started

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The entire solution is open-source and available in my repository. To try it yourself, you'll need:
  • Python 3.x
  • Git
  • Make
  • OpenAI API key

Copy code to your repo an use it.

🍺 Conclusion

By leveraging AI through Windsurf IDE, what used to be a mundane task has become a seamless part of the development workflow. This not only saves time but also ensures better documentation of our codebase through consistent and meaningful commit messages.

Author Of article : Dmitrii Galkin Read full article