Git Commit Plugin Plus For VS Code

Automatically generate git commit messages, with LLM-powered commit message generation

Requirements

• VS Code 1.42.0 or higher.
• VS Code's built-in Git plugin

Format

This extension follows the Angular Team Commit Specification, as follows:

<type>(<scope>): <subject>
<BLANK LINE>
<body>
<BLANK LINE>
<footer>

See info on the fields below.

Type

Must be one of the following:

Type	Description
feat	A new feature
fix	A bug fix
docs	Documentation only changes
style:	Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)
refactor	A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature
perf	A code change that improves performance
test	Adding missing or correcting existing tests
chore	Changes to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries such as documentation generation

Scope

The scope could be anything specifying place of the commit change. For example $location, $browser, $compile, $rootScope, ngHref, ngClick, ngView, etc...

You can use * when the change affects more than a single scope.

Subject

The subject contains succinct description of the change:

• use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes"
• don't capitalize first letter
• no dot (.) at the end

Body

Just as in the subject, use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes". The body should include the motivation for the change and contrast this with previous behavior.

Footer

The footer should contain any information about Breaking Changes and is also the place to reference GitHub issues that this commit closes.

Breaking Changes should start with the word BREAKING CHANGE: with a space or two newlines. The rest of the commit message is then used for this.

A detailed explanation can be found in this document.

Quick Start

1. Install the plugin
2. Use the command shortcut showGitCommit to open the command window or Click the icon on the git plugin navigation bar
3. Enter the commit information, which automatically generates a commit message that conforms to the specification

LLM Commit Message Generation

The extension can analyze your git changes (staged diff, falling back to unstaged changes) with an LLM and generate a commit message that follows this extension's commit convention: the commit type list (including CustomCommitType), the active commit template, the MaxSubjectCharacters limit and the emoji setting.

The LLM only returns structured fields (type / scope / subject / body / footer), and the final message is rendered locally with your commit template, so custom templates are fully supported. The body is always formatted as - bullet lines.

1. Configure the LLM settings (see Settings Options), at minimum GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.ApiKey
2. Stage your changes (or just modify files)
3. Click the ✨ icon on the git plugin navigation bar, or run the command Generate Commit Message by LLM from the command palette
4. The generated message is filled into the SCM input box directly

The default configuration targets a local Ollama service (http://localhost:11434/v1). Any OpenAI-compatible service works too, e.g.:

• OpenAI: https://api.openai.com/v1
• DeepSeek: https://api.deepseek.com/v1
• Kimi: https://api.moonshot.cn/v1

Note: Ollama does not validate the API key, but GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.ApiKey must be non-empty (any value such as ollama works). Make sure GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.Model matches a model available on your service.

Locale Support

The plugin will automatically switch the language description based on the vscode language environment.

Support Language

• en-US as default
• zh-CN
• zh-HK
• zh-TW
• ja-JP

Settings Options

• GitCommitPluginPlus.ShowEmoji: whether to show emoji, default true.

  {
    "GitCommitPluginPlus.ShowEmoji": true
  }

• GitCommitPluginPlus.CustomCommitType: customize the commit type, default null.

  { 
    "GitCommitPluginPlus.CustomCommitType": [
      "customTypeName"
    ]
  }

  or

  [
     {
         // If there are duplicate keys, rewrite the config，otherwise add As a new configuration addition
         "key": "customTypeKey", 
         "label": "customTypeName",
         "detail": "customTypeDetail",
         "icon":"customIcon"
     }
  ]

• GitCommitPluginPlus.MaxSubjectCharacters: customize the maximum number of words on the subject, default 50.

  {
    "GitCommitPluginPlus.MaxSubjectCharacters": 50
  }

• GitCommitPluginPlus.ShowTemplateButton: whether to show the show git commit template button on the Source Control title bar, default true.

  {
    "GitCommitPluginPlus.ShowTemplateButton": true
  }

• GitCommitPluginPlus.ShowLLMButton: whether to show the Generate Commit Message by LLM button on the Source Control title bar, default true.

  {
    "GitCommitPluginPlus.ShowLLMButton": true
  }

• GitCommitPluginPlus.FillSubjectWithCurrent: whether to fill the subject with the current commit message, default false.

  {
    "GitCommitPluginPlus.FillSubjectWithCurrent": false
  }

• GitCommitPluginPlus.Template: customize the git commit template.

  {
    "GitCommitPluginPlus.Templates": [
      {
          "templateName": "Angular",
          "templateContent": "<icon><space><type>(<scope>):<space><subject><enter><body><enter><footer>"
      },
      {
          "templateName": "git-cz",
          "templateContent": "<type>(<scope>):<space><icon><space><subject><enter><body><enter><footer>",
           // Set as default commit template
          "default":true
      }
    ]
  }

• GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.BaseUrl: OpenAI-compatible API base URL, default is the local Ollama endpoint http://localhost:11434/v1.

  {
    "GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.BaseUrl": "http://localhost:11434/v1"
  }

• GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.ApiKey: API key of the LLM service, default "" (must be configured before LLM generation; any non-empty value works for Ollama).

  {
    "GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.ApiKey": "sk-xxx"
  }

• GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.Model: model name used to generate the commit message, default deepseek-v4-pro. Instead of typing it manually, you can run the command Select LLM Model from the command palette to fetch the model list from the configured service (GET {BaseUrl}/models) and pick one from a dropdown — the selection is written back to this setting automatically.

  {
    "GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.Model": "deepseek-v4-pro"
  }

• GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.Temperature: sampling temperature of the LLM, between 0 and 2, default 0.5.

  {
    "GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.Temperature": 0.5
  }

• GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.ResponseLanguage: language of the generated commit subject and body. Select from the dropdown, or enter any language directly in settings.json, default 简体中文.

  {
    "GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.ResponseLanguage": "简体中文"
  }

• GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.MaxDiffLength: maximum characters of the git diff sent to the LLM, default 12000.

  {
    "GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.MaxDiffLength": 12000
  }

• GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.CustomPrompt: extra preferences appended to the LLM prompt, e.g. commit style requirements, default "".

  {
    "GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.CustomPrompt": "Use concise commit messages"
  }

• GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.Timeout: LLM request timeout in seconds. 0 means no timeout, default 0.

  {
    "GitCommitPluginPlus.LLM.Timeout": 60
  }

License

Released under MIT by @RedJue.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

白云苍狗 💻	冷空气 📖	Hancel Lin 💻	Keriy 💻	Arthur Meyniel 💻	haryoiro 📖	Tom 📖
风过无痕 💻	whwnow 💻	Michael Currin 📖	odinsam 💻	tys1128 📖	mlzzen 💻	zeye 💻
Moeyua 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!