Committy

🚀 Generate clear, concise, and structured commit messages effortlessly with Committy!

🌟 Features

• Generate commit messages compatible with SemVer specification
• Support for various commit types (feat, fix, build, etc.)
• Option to indicate breaking changes
• Short and long commit message support
• Amend existing commits
• Easy-to-use CLI interface

🤔 Why Committy?

Committy was born out of the need for a simple, efficient tool to generate structured commit messages. Whether you're working on a personal project or collaborating with a team, Committy helps you:

• Maintain a clean and consistent commit history
• Easily generate changelogs
• Adhere to commit message best practices
• Save time on writing detailed commit messages

Plus, it's a great way to learn and practice Rust programming!

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

cargo install committy

Basic Usage

To generate a commit message:

committy

Demo

🛠 Options and Commands

Amend an existing commit

committy amend

Demo

Create a short commit

committy -s "change the api version"

Create a short commit and amend

committy -s "change the api version" amend

📝 Commit Types

Committy supports the following commit types:

• feat: New feature
• fix: Bug fix
• build: Changes that affect the build system or external dependencies
• chore: Other changes that don't modify src or test files
• ci: Changes to CI configuration files and scripts
• cd: Changes to CD configuration files and scripts
• docs: Documentation only changes
• perf: A code change that improves performance
• refactor: A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature
• revert: Revert a previous commit
• style: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code
• test: Adding missing tests or correcting existing tests

💥 Breaking Changes

When prompted, you can indicate if your commit includes breaking changes. This will add a ! at the end of the commit type, signaling a breaking change as per conventional commit standards.

📄 Commit Message Structure

Short Commit Message

A brief, concise summary of the changes (around 150 characters). Think of it as a TL;DR for your commit.

Long Commit Message

A more detailed explanation of the changes, which will be included in the changelog. Use this to provide context, reasoning, and any other relevant information about your changes.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a new branch for your feature or bug fix
3. Make your changes and commit them
4. Push your changes to your forked repository
5. Create a pull request to the 'develop' branch of the main repository

Please see the CONTRIBUTING file for more details.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Inspired by the need for consistent commit messages
• Built with love using Rust 🦀