I Built a CLI Tool That Writes My Commit Messages

Hello guys! We've all been there. You just finished a feature, you're ready to commit, and then you stare at the terminal for 30 seconds trying to come up with a decent commit message. Sometimes I'...

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I Built a CLI Tool That Writes My Commit Messages

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Hello guys! We've all been there. You just finished a feature, you're ready to commit, and then you stare at the terminal for 30 seconds trying to come up with a decent commit message. Sometimes I'd spend more time thinking about the message than writing the actual code. So I did what any developer would do. I automated it. How it started I already had Claude installed on my machine. One day I realized I could just pipe my git diff into it and ask for a commit message. So I added this little function to my .zshrc: gpm() { git diff HEAD | claude -p "propose a conventional commit message for these changes. output only the message, nothing else." } That was it. Run gpm, get a message, copy paste it. Simple. Then I wanted to go further. Why not commit directly with the proposed message? gac() { msg=$(git diff HEAD | claude -p "propose a conventional commit message for these changes, one line only. output only the message, nothing else.") echo "\n$msg\n" read "confirm?Commit with this messa

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