Gen Commit

Gen Commit uses LLMs to automatically generate git commit messages. I'm lazy and don't like to write commit messages. Inspired by scommit.

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Usage

gencommit works exactly like git commit, but it generates the commit message and description for you.

gencommit

is the same as

git commit -m "..." -m "..."

but with a generated commit message.

You can also pass in the same arguments as git commit.

gencommit -a

is the same as

git commit -a -m "..." -m "..."

I recommend aliasing it, personally I alias it to gc. You can do this by adding the following to your shell configuration file (.zshrc, .bashrc, etc.)

alias gc="gencommit"

Installation

npm install -g @raghavp/gen-commit

Initialization

Once you have it installed, initialize gencommit

gencommit --init

Go to ~/.gen-commit and add your OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google API key.

Configuration

MODEL=<provider:model (i.e. openai:gpt-5-mini, anthropic:claude-haiku-4-5, or google:gemini-2.5-flash-lite)>
OPENAI_API_KEY=<your openai api key>
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=<your anthropic api key>
GOOGLE_API_KEY=<your google api key>

OPTIONAL:

MAX_TOKENS_ALLOWED=<number>