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Commit Message Generator

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For the lazy...

https://github.com/ngerakines/commitment/blob/master/commit_...

I set this in my .profile file a while ago:

  alias gca='git add -A; git commit -a -m "`curl -s http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt`"'

Dear lord this is a bad idea

This is funny. But the reason that this is funny is because people actually say these things in commit messages. I mean, "updates" is a commonly used commit message for a colleague I work with. It makes me want to cry.

They sound nothing like the commit messages I've ever seen. I suppose I haven't seen much.

For your ~/.gitconfig:

  wtc = !git commit -m \"$(curl -s http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt)\"

what should happen? does it need to go in a specific "section" of the .gitconfig?

Yes, i forgot, it has to go into the [alias] section of .gitconfig.

It create a commit with a random message from whatthecommit.com; nothing you would push to your public repository; i use it in a script to backup some stuff in a git repo.

For your ~/.profile (or whatever): curl --connect-timeout 1 http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt

Why a connect timeout? And why such a short one?

So that your ~/.profile loading doesn't hang when your network does. Nothing more frustrating then wanting to get something done quickly in the shell and having it stall.

Does anyone else ever use "WIP" for work in progress? :)

WIP progress.

Yes, before I rebase.

Yes: https://github.com/bartman/git-wip

use http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt to pull just the text for a commit message.

Very funny, may just check this out for some inspiration every once in a while. :)

Almost as funny as https://twitter.com/gitlost [NSFW: language] which uses GitHub's timeline feed to find git commit messages with profanity in them. I wrote it in the same spirit as Commit Logs From Last Night although CLFLN seems to use a data source with quite a bit of delay.

I love it! May I ask how these are generated?

I wouldn't really call it a "generator"; it uses a static list: https://github.com/ngerakines/commitment/blob/master/commit_...

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