HackerReposA FIELD GUIDE TO OPEN SOURCE
ProSponsor the shelf♧ 0
← Back to top all-time
arpxspace
smartcommit
Go2025–2025
arpxspace / smartcommit

smartcommit

Enforce the habit of self-documenting code through better commit messages.

4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
237GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Enforce the habit of self-documenting code through better commit messages.

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 7:56:55 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-11-22 20:54:35 UTC to 2025-11-23 01:22:24 UTC.

012025-11-22 20:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-22 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsNov 22, 20:002025-11-22 21:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-22 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-22 22:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-22 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 22, 22:002025-11-22 23:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-11-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-23 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-23 01:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-23 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 23, 01:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
UTC ranges include their start and exclude their end. Select a period to filter the source evidence.
PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Nov 22, 20:002025-11-22 20:00:00 UTC2025-11-22 21:00:00 UTC110
Nov 22, 21:002025-11-22 21:00:00 UTC2025-11-22 22:00:00 UTC000
Nov 22, 22:002025-11-22 22:00:00 UTC2025-11-22 23:00:00 UTC101
Nov 22, 23:002025-11-22 23:00:00 UTC2025-11-23 00:00:00 UTC101
Nov 23, 00:002025-11-23 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-23 01:00:00 UTC000
Nov 23, 01:002025-11-23 01:00:00 UTC2025-11-23 02:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

1 sources
https://github.com/arpxspace/smartcommit/commit/cc677f7bd210... This is just a complete braindead commit. Without looking at the code I could probably take 5 minutes to make sense of the commit message, being intrigued something interesting or important is happening. The message is massively over the top, it has way more text then actual code changes. It wastes time. I am not against AI as a helper in various places. But if possible it should be an opt-in tool if deemed useful. If someone wants to get a summary about a non trivial commit, that can be useful. Even better if the committer writes about the intentions and reasons for the commit, so an AI could match those with the actual code. Don't reiterate whats happening in a patch. Give the meta that isn't there or less obvious. Please.
In Show HN: Build the habit of writing meaningful commit messages

MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME

A few shortcuts

/
Search the collection
?
Open this guide
Esc
Close dialogs and navigation

Your saved repositories and interests stay in this browser.