🚀 even-better-commits

A CLI tool that helps you write better, faster, and more consistent commit messages with the power of AI! ✨

🎯 Why?

Writing great commit messages is hard. even-better-commits makes it easy! It suggests commit messages based on your changes while strictly following the Conventional Commits specification. This ensures compatibility with tools like semantic-release and helps teams maintain consistency in their commit history.

⚡ Prerequisites

• Node.js v22 or higher
• GitHub CLI (optional; not needed for basic commits)

📦 Installation

npm i -g even-better-commits

Usage

even-better-commits offers multiple commands for different use cases: creating commits, creating branches, and opening pull requests.

🚀 First-time Usage? No worries! even-better-commits will guide you through the initial configuration automatically. You can also run ebc-setup anytime to update your settings.

📝 Creating a commit

ebc

🌿 Creating a Branch

The GitHub CLI (gh) is required for this command.

This command creates a new branch based on a GitHub issue. The issue information is used to generate a descriptive branch name.

ebb
ebc-branch

📤 Opening a Pull Request

The GitHub CLI (gh) is required for this command.

This command opens a pull request based on the commit messages in the current branch. It generates a title and a short overview of the changes, including a list of commits with brief descriptions.

ebp
ebc-pr

🧠 AI Providers

even-better-commits supports multiple AI-powered commit message generation providers:

🏠 Ollama (Local)

If you have Ollama installed, you can use any available local model—no extra setup required! 🔥

☁️ SAP AI Core

To use SAP AI Core, set your credentials via the AICORE_SERVICE_KEY environment variable:

export AICORE_SERVICE_KEY='{
  "url": "",
  "clientid": "",
  "clientsecret": "",
  "serviceurls": { "AI_API_URL": "" }
}'

💡 Inspiration

This project is inspired by better-commits, a tool we love and use daily. Our goal? Keep it simple, but make it even better—so developers can focus on coding instead of writing commit messages. 💙

🎉 Happy committing! 🚀