Commit Best Practices Skill

What problem does it solve?

Maintaining a clean, understandable Git commit history is crucial for collaboration, debugging, and project maintainability, but often developers struggle with best practices for committing, amending, and reverting changes. This skill provides guidance and automation to ensure high-quality commit hygiene, saving you time and reducing errors.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Pre-Commit Checks: Validates commit messages and changes before committing, preventing common mistakes.
• Commit Review: Provides feedback on existing commits against best practices, helping to improve commit quality.
• Amend & Revert Guidance: Offers safe and effective strategies for amending and reverting commits, minimizing risks.
• Use Case: A developer is about to commit changes but wants to ensure their commit message follows project conventions. They use this skill to run a pre-commit check, which validates the message format and suggests improvements, ensuring a clean and consistent Git history for easier collaboration.

Quick Start

Use the commit-best-practices skill to check the pre-commit status of the current changes.