Lesson 1829 of 2116
AI and commit message cleanup
Turn messy WIP commits into a clean conventional-commits history with AI as your editor.
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What this lesson covers
Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2commit message
- 3conventional commits
- 4history
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Section 1
The premise
Future-you reads commit messages to understand history. AI can rewrite vague messages into structured ones if you give it the diff for each commit.
What AI does well here
- Convert 'fix stuff' into 'fix(auth): handle expired refresh tokens'.
- Suggest a type (feat/fix/chore) from the diff.
- Group related WIP commits into one squash message.
What AI cannot do
- Decide which commits should stay separate for git bisect.
- Know your team's exact convention without examples.
- Catch a commit that should never have been made.
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