Feature Request: Improve AI Commit Message Workflow (Reduce Redundancy & Add Visibility Control)

[rayachristian]

Context

The current AI-assisted commit message workflow in SourceGit relies on two prompts:

• Prompt 1 is executed once per staged file and generates a description for each diff. These outputs are appended to the commit message, each prefixed with a dash ("-").
• Prompt 2 generates a global summary (typically used as the commit title and optionally additional context) based on the outputs of Prompt 1.

Problem

This approach introduces two main issues:

1. Redundancy in generated content
   Since Prompt 1 operates independently on each staged file, the resulting descriptions often contain overlapping or repetitive information. This leads to noisy commit messages.

2. Lack of control over commit message verbosity
   All outputs from Prompt 1 are systematically included in the final commit message, even when they are only useful as intermediate data for Prompt 2.

Proposed Solution

Introduce an option (e.g., a checkbox in the UI) to control the visibility of Prompt 1 outputs in the final commit message.

Suggested Behavior

• When the option is enabled:
  • Outputs from Prompt 1 are not displayed in the commit message.
  • However, they are still fully passed as input to Prompt 2.
• Prompt 2 continues to generate:
  • A concise commit title
  • Optionally a high-level summary, now benefiting from all per-file analyses without exposing their redundancy.

Benefits

• Cleaner commit messages with reduced duplication
• Improved signal-to-noise ratio
• Maintains the granularity of per-file analysis without cluttering the final output
• Provides user control over verbosity depending on workflow preferences

Additional Notes

This change aligns well with a two-step summarization strategy:

1. Fine-grained analysis (Prompt 1 per diff)
2. Global synthesis (Prompt 2)

However, the current implementation exposes both layers directly, which reduces overall readability. This feature would allow users to leverage the full pipeline while keeping the commit message concise and relevant.

Possible UI

• Checkbox label example:
  "Hide per-file AI descriptions (use for summary only)"

[love-linger]

The AI-based commit message generator has been totally rewrited. Please download and test the latest CI build from GitHub Action or build the latest develop branch yourself.

[love-linger]

The new implementation is tool-based conversation instead of two-steps and multiple conversations.

• SourceGit starts the AI chat conversation to generate a commit message with following informations:
  • Built-in prompts
  • Additional prompts user defined in Preferences
  • Repository path
  • Changed file list because that we can select only some key files in staged
  • Built-in tool: GetDetailChangesInFile
• AI will call the built-in tool GetDetailChangesInFile to get detail changes in a special file
• AI will output the final answer after it has readed all changes