Commit

Commit is an editor that helps you write better Git and Mercurial commit messages.

Installation

flatpak install re.sonny.Commit
flatpak run re.sonny.Commit # Follow instructions

Distro	Package Name/Link	Maintainer
Arch Linux (aur)	`commit`	Mark Wagie

Usage

Commit will pop up automatically when you make a commit in one of your projects.

To save your commit message, press the Commit button or the Ctrl+Return key combination.

To abort and dismiss Commit, press the Cancel button or the Escape key.

Features

Highlights overflow of title when it exceeds 50 characters (customizable)
Inserts blank line between title and description
Spell checking
Comments are readonly and excluded from "Select All"
Displays project folder and branch in window header
Dark theme support: the overflow highlight is adjusted according to your theme
Supports git commit messages, merge messages, tag messages, add -p messages, and rebase -i messages
Supports Mercurial commit messages
Welcome window when launched from desktop (or without argument)

Tips and trick

Emojis

right-click ➞ Insert Emoji or use the shortcut Ctrl+. 🎉️ The Emoji picker works in any GNOME app 👣️

Open Commit in the center of the screen

On GNOME you can make all new windows open in the center using

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter center-new-windows true

See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/246

or set and use the move-to-center keybinding

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings move-to-center "['<Super><Control><Shift>Space']"

Development

cd Commit
./re.sonny.Commit test/with-body/COMMIT_EDITMSG

Make changes and hit Ctrl+Shift+Q on the Commit window to restart it.

To pass the tests you have to install a few dependencies

# Install development dependencies
sudo dnf install --assumeyes npm flatpak make desktop-file-utils gjs gtk3-devel libhandy
npm install
flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install --user --assumeyes --noninteractive flathub org.freedesktop.appstream-glib

# Run tests
make test

Flathub builds https://flathub.org/builds/#/apps/re.sonny.Commit

Maintainer

i18n

# To update the pot file
# xgettext -f po/POTFILES -o po/re.sonny.Commit.pot --no-wrap -cTRANSLATORS --from-code=UTF-8
# sed -i "s/Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION/Project-Id-Version: re.sonny.Commit/" po/re.sonny.Commit.pot
meson compile re.sonny.Commit-pot -C _build


# To create a translation
# msginit -i po/re.sonny.Commit.pot -o po/fr.po -l fr_FR.UTF-8
echo -n " fr" >> po/LINGUAS
meson compile re.sonny.Commit-update-po -C _build

# To update translations
# msgmerge -U po/*.po po/re.sonny.Commit.pot
meson compile re.sonny.Commit-update-po -C _build

See sonnyp#14 (comment)

Publish new version

meson compile re.sonny.Commit-update-po -C _build
Update version in meson.build
git tag
flathub

Building

host

cd Commit
meson --prefix $PWD/install build
ninja -C build install

Flatpak

Use GNOME Builder or

cd Commit
flatpak-builder --user --force-clean --repo=repo --install-deps-from=flathub flatpak re.sonny.Commit.json
flatpak --user remote-add --no-gpg-verify --if-not-exists Commit repo
flatpak --user install --reinstall --assumeyes Commit re.sonny.Commit

Credits

Commit is a fork of Gnomit wich was inspired by Komet.

Many thanks to its original author Aral balkan of Small Technology Foundation.

Contributors

Copyright

License

GPLv3 or later. Please see COPYING file.

tcitworld/Commit