commitmonkey

commitmonkey is a Git hook that rewrites your boring commit messages into brutally honest, questionably professional roasts.

Because if you're going to break prod, at least be funny about it.

Get started

Get OpenAI API Key

To generate messages that are relevant, it's best to use OpenAI.

Create a project, add come credits and get an API key

https://platform.openai.com/

Install commitmonkey

npm install -g commitmonkey

Set options

You configure options with yaml file in home directory ~/.commitmonkey.yaml

option	details
mode	Specify how the commit message is updated. Options: replace , append
profile	Specify the personality to use. You can use anything you like here. Ideas: intern, senior, ai, cto
strategy	Specify roast strategy. Options: openai, basic (hard coded replacements)
openApiKey	OpenAI API key to generate roasts. Needed for openai strategy.

cat > ~/.commitmonkey.yaml << 'END'
mode: replace
profile: cto
strategy: openai 
openApiKey: <ADD_YOUR_API_KEY>
END

Install Hook

commitmonkey uses git hooks. The hook needs to be initialized in each repo you want to be roasted in. Note: if you have any custom commit-msg - it will be overwritten.

cd ~/my-git-project
commitmonkey init-hook

Git Commits

# you commit:
git commit -m "fix typo"

# roast appears:
"Fixed a bug. Or made it worse. Who knows?"