Unleashing Git Commit Insights with JetBrains Git Assistant Plugin

[coolbeevip]

Please allow me to recommend a plugin: https://medium.com/@coolbeevip/unleashing-git-commit-insights-with-jetbrains-git-assistant-plugin-4193e8f00fa0

[clutcher]

@coolbeevip Thanks for suggestion. I setup this plugin and evaluated it during my daily workflow. Below would be my personal thoughts on it.

There are 3 main functions of plugin

• Git statistics: don't see a lot of sense in displaying all that data in IDE, as it doesn't help with development intself. Also you can see all the same data in github, bitbucket etc.
• Autogenerating Git messages by OpenAI: almost any AI plugin provides similar functionality. And there are already few separate plugins, with much more functionality, then in your plugin.
• Git message template: there are a lot of other plugins with much more functionality, then in your plugin. Personaly I use Conventional Commit plugin.

As for now, I don't see any reason to add this plugin into the list, as it doesn't have any unique functioality and doesn't provide same amount of functionality as other competitor plugins.

I can recommend you to do things from below list, so I can reconsider your plugin for adding into list:

• You should somehow incorporate git statistics into code editor, like display how often current file/class/method is modified etc. Also you can try to use ideas from https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat and also somehow display that in code editor during regular development.
• I think you should, at least, have functiional parity with https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/21335-ai-commits plugin for git message ai generation.
• You shoud add more functionality for commit message templates. You can check plugins https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/13389-conventional-commit, https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/13477-git-commit-message-helper, https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/20935-git-commit-message-format and https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/23100-commit-message-template to see various functionality, which you can add.

As for now I'm closing this ticket. Feel free to create a new ticket or reopen this one in case of any changes. Good luck with plugin development and promotion!