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I built a CLI tool that writes my git commits so I never have to again
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I built a CLI tool that writes my git commits so I never have to again

via Dev.to WebdevphantomDev1mo ago

Let me paint you a picture. It's 1am. I've been coding for 4 hours straight. I'm in flow, fixing bugs, adding features, refactoring stuff that was embarrassing to look at. Then I finally decide to push and I stare at the git commit prompt like it personally offended me. What do I type? fix stuff ? update ? changes ? Yeah. We've all been there. The worst part wasn't even the lazy messages. It was that I'd sometimes go days without pushing because I'd get so deep into coding that committing felt like an interruption. Then I'd look at my GitHub contribution graph and it looked like I hadn't touched a computer in a week. Meanwhile I'd written 2000 lines of code. So I did what any reasonable developer would do at 1am — I decided to build a tool to fix it instead of just... committing. 💡 The idea The concept is simple: what if a tool just watched my code, noticed when I saved files, figured out what changed, and wrote the commit message for me? I'd just have to press Y. That's it. That's the

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