The Lost Art of Commit Messages

1. Angular

   1 797 97,526 10.0 TypeScript

   Deliver web apps with confidence 🚀

   

   I second the Angular-style git commit message convention (https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/main/contributing-do...). Though, it is also art that I have lost.

   On a lighter note, I recommend "8 Types of Commit Messages That Show He's NOT the Man for You" https://web.archive.org/web/20210606005031/https://www.codem...

2. Civic Auth

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3. aicommits

   2 17 8,358 3.6 TypeScript

   A CLI that writes your git commit messages for you with AI

   

   For those groups, having some tool that autofills the first draft of the commit message (that you can then modify) would probably improve their overall commit message quality.

   A quick google gave me several projects:

   * https://github.com/Nutlope/aicommits

4. ai-commit

   3 1 406 4.2 JavaScript

   ✨ Make commits easier with ChatGPT, Gitmoji and Conventional Commits 🚀 (by insulineru)

   

5. semantic-release

   4 89 21,771 9.4 JavaScript

   :package::rocket: Fully automated version management and package publishing

   

   > Having commits prefixed by "chore:" or "docs(ui):" aren't that useful.

   I don't use those for humans, I use those for tooling, such as semantic-release. The human-readable bits come after that.

   https://semantic-release.gitbook.io/

6. procps

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   You might like top's commit messages, e.g., https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/e6f22569e9db16d...

   commit e6f22569e9db16dbef7d9bdee5bb41b8cb7a03ca

7. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

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