git-magic - Man Page

Automate add/commit/push routines

Examples (TL;DR)

Commit changes with a generated message: git magic
[a]dd untracked files and commit changes with a generated message: git magic -a
Commit changes with a custom [m]essage: git magic -m "custom_commit_message"
[e]dit the commit [m]essage before committing: git magic -em "custom_commit_message"
Commit changes and [p]ush to remote: git magic -p
Commit changes with a [f]orce [p]ush to remote: git magic -fp

Synopsis

git-magic [-a] [-m msg] [-e] [-p] [-f]

Produces summary of changes for commit message from git status --porcelain output. Commits staged changes with the generated commit message and opens editor to modify generated commit message optionally. Also staging and pushing can be automated optionally.

Options

-a: Adds everything including untracked files.
-m msg: Use the given msg as the commit message. If multiple -m options are given, their values are concatenated as separate paragraphs. Passed to git commit command. The generated is appended to user-given messages.
-e: This option lets you further edit the generated message. Passed to git commit command.
-p: Runs git push after commit.
-f: Adds -f option to git push command.
-h: Prints synopsis.

Examples

This example stages all changes then commits with automatic commit message.

$ git magic -a
[feature/magic dc2a11e] A  man/git-magic.md
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 man/git-auto.md
# git log
Author: overengineer <54alpersaid@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Sep 30 20:14:22 2021 +0300

    M  man/git-magic.md

-m option PREPENDS generated message.

$ git magic -am "Added documentation for git magic"
[feature/magic dc2a11e] Added documentation for git magic
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 A man/git-auto.md
$ git log
Author: overengineer <54alpersaid@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Sep 30 20:14:22 2021 +0300

    Added documentation for git magic

    M  man/git-magic.md