git-magic1

Usage

Overview

Produces summary of changes for commit message from git status --porcelain output. Commits staged changes with the generated commit message and opens editor to modify generated commit message optionally. Also staging and pushing can be automated optionally.

Options

-a

Adds everything including untracked files.

-m msg

Use the given msg as the commit message. If multiple -m options are given, their values are concatenated as separate paragraphs. Passed to git commit command. The generated is appended to user-given messages.

-e

This option lets you further edit the generated message. Passed to git commit command.

-p

Runs git push after commit.

-f

Adds -f option to git push command.

-h

Prints synopsis.

Examples

This example stages all changes then commits with automatic commit message.

$ git magic -a
[feature/magic dc2a11e] A  man/git-magic.md
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 man/git-auto.md
# git log
Author: overengineer <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Sep 30 20:14:22 2021 +0300
    M  man/git-magic.md

-m option PREPENDS generated message.

$ git magic -am "Added documentation for git magic"
[feature/magic dc2a11e] Added documentation for git magic
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 A man/git-auto.md
$ git log
Author: overengineer <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Sep 30 20:14:22 2021 +0300
    Added documentation for git magic
    M  man/git-magic.md