GitChronicler: Write commit messages with AI

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:12:00 +0200

I started working on GitChronicler mostly to learn how I could integrate AI into my workflow in a way that would actually spare me doing boring stuff, like writing the git commit message. The tool feeds a patch to a language model via the OpenRouter API and gets back a commit message that reflects what the code actually does — saving the mechanical step of describing changes that are already fully visible in the diff, while still leaving the developer in control of what gets committed.

Refactoring a function name across several patches with git rebase

Fri, 22 Apr 2016 17:32:23 +0000

git rebase is one of my favorite git commands. It allows to update a set of local patches against another git branch and also to rework, through the -i flag, some previous patches. A lesser-known capability is the –exec flag, which runs an arbitrary shell command after each patch is applied during the rebase. Combined with the -X theirs merge strategy to silently resolve conflicts, this makes it straightforward to apply mechanical transformations — such as a symbol rename — across an entire patch series without manual intervention.

Git on *scratch*

GitChronicler: Write commit messages with AI

Refactoring a function name across several patches with git rebase

Git on scratch