Ello Ello.
Can you recommend a program with which I can generate commit messages locally? I DO NOT want an LLM local or cloud API. What I want is a tiny or small language model. If I could easily swap or customize the model for each project, it would be better, too. So I could have smaller models for specific projects. I can do the training meself.
Thanks in advance!
You and your team will have to decide, but in my experience generating commit messages is not particularly useful.
Because you really just want a short (ideally one-line) summary of the changes. If someone’s interested in the details, they can look at the diff (and hell, have that then summarized by an LLM, if needed). Adding a bullet point list for each concrete change adds a ton of noise to the commit log, which is IMHO not worth it.
Where long commit messages are actually useful is for documenting things that aren’t written into the code, mainly why you made the change. But since they’re not in the code, the LLM can’t generate that part for you.
I see. didn’t think of this one. Note that there is a commit message, one line, and there is an extended description. The extended description, most of the time, is like you said and an LLM cannot do it. But I was wondering if that one line could be auto-generated. If not for every commit, at least for some common changes. But I will take your word that a Language model won’t be good.