Cometary

An alternative to Comet with additional features.

The way I've changed the original is for it to look and feel more like Commitizen when invoking its sub-command commit. My only gripe was that the start-up speed was a tad on the slow side sometimes, given that it is Python, and that customizing the prompts wasn't as straight-forward as with Comet.

What I missed with Comet though was that Commitizen's commit by default keeps the values given for previous prompts on the screen, as seen in the demo, and that in and of itself was a major sticking point in continuing to use Comet.

Other minor changes include a fix to the prompt that asks for a commit message body that was misaligned and a check prior to running that confirms whether there are even any files that can be committed (i.e. are in the staging area). More improvements have been made in terms of customizing the character input limits for the scope, message, or setting a total one in general and having a visible character count for all limit types.

Installation

• using go install:

go install github.com/usrme/cometary@latest

• download a binary from the releases page

• build it yourself (requires Go 1.18+):

git clone https://github.com/usrme/cometary.git
cd cometary
go build

Removal

rm -f "${GOPATH}/bin/cometary"
rm -rf "${GOPATH}/pkg/mod/github.com/usrme/cometary*"

Usage

There is an additional comet.json file that includes the prefixes and descriptions that I most prefer myself, which can be added to either the root of a repository, to one's home directory as .comet.json or to ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/cometary/config.json. Omitting this means that the same defaults are used as in the original.

• To adjust the character limit of the scope, add the key scopeInputCharLimit into the configuration file with the desired limit
  • Omitting the key uses a default value of 16 characters
• To adjust the character limit of the message, add the key commitInputCharLimit into the configuration file with the desired limit
  • Omitting the key uses a default value of 100 characters
• To adjust the total limit of characters in the resulting commit message, add the key totalInputCharLimit into the configuration file with the desired limit
  • Adding this key overrides scope- and message-specific limits
• To adjust the order of the scope completion values (i.e. longer or shorter strings first), then add the key scopeOrderCompletion into the configuration file with either ascending or descending as the values
  • Omitting the key uses a default order of descending

There is also a -m flag that takes a string that will be used as the basis for a search among all commit messages. For example: if you're committing something of a chore and always just use the message "update dependencies", you can do cometary -m update (use quotation marks if argument to -m includes spaces) and Cometary will populate the list of possible messages with those that include "update", which can then be cycled through with the Tab key. This is similar to the search you could make with git log --grep="update".

By default the -m flag behavior is set to only populate with possible messages that adhere to conventional commits, but this behavior can be changed by setting the findAllCommitMessages value in the configuration file as true.

Acknowledgments

Couldn't have been possible without the work of Liam Galvin.

License

MIT