Git commit messages for lazy people

You feed it a verbose commit status and it will spit out commit message via OpenAI API.

Install

go install github.com/mitjafelicijan/lazycommit

Then you need to put OpenAI API key in somewhere so it's accessible in your shell. I put mine in .bashrc file with export OPENAI_API_KEY="".

You can then test it with:

echo "My diff" | lazycommit

Usage

If you try to commit with git commit --verbose this will open up your default terminal editor and also provide diffs of your changes.

You can also provide a setting in your .gitconfig and this way you will not be required to provide verbose flag each time.

[commit]
    verbose = true

Use in VIM

If your default editor is VIM and when Git asks you for commit message you can then execute the command below at the top of the buffer you will get back the commit message from LLM.

To try a different message just undo the change and try executing command again.

:r !< % lazycommit

You could keybind this like this (Leader gc).

nnoremap <Leader>gc :r !< % lazycommit<cr>

Ideas

• Add local model suppor through Ollama.
• Add Anthropic Claude support.

Shoutout to

• Commit Message Writer's Block? Here's the Cure