Quick tip: Use Claude with Opencommit
I have never been great at git commit messages. Maybe it's because I am mostly a solo admin working on personal projects and I am not a developer by trade. Through my work and general curiosity I have picked up some skills but the lack of a formal developer training path means crafting effective commit messages is not something I really picked up.
Thanks to the opencommit project I don't have to worry about this anymore. The tool uses LLMs to automatically generate commit messages based on the tracked changes. In my initial testing it has done a much better job at providing actually useful messages than I ever was:
Use with Claude
I use Claude as my main AI provider and thankfully the oco command is completely customizable on AI providers, models, endpoints, etc. Here are the shell commands to configure oco to work with the Anthropic API:
oco config set OCO_API_URL=https://api.anthropic.com
oco config set OCO_API_KEY=<YOUR CLAUDE API KEY>
oco config set OCO_AI_PROVIDER=anthropic
oco config set OCO_EMOJI=true
oco config set OCO_MODEL=claude-3-7-sonnet-latest
These values can also be set in the file ~/.opencommit. The full list of supported options can be found in the Github Readme.