Semantic Commit

Semantic Commit

Split large changes into meaningful minimal units and commit them sequentially with semantic commit messages. Uses only standard git commands with no external tool dependencies.

Arguments

• --dry-run: Show proposed commit splits without actually committing
• --lang <language>: Force commit message language (en or ja)

Steps

1. Analyze Changes

# Get all changes
git diff HEAD --name-status
git diff HEAD --stat

• Detect "large changes": 5+ files, 100+ lines, multiple feature areas, or mixed types (feat + fix + docs)
• If changes are small and cohesive, commit as a single unit

2. Classify Changed Files

Group files by:

1. Feature boundary: Files belonging to the same feature (e.g., src/auth/ → authentication)
2. Change type: Tests only → test:, docs only → docs:, config only → chore:
3. Dependencies: Related files (model + migration, component + styles)
4. Size: Keep each commit under 10 files

# Analyze by directory structure
git diff HEAD --name-only | cut -d'/' -f1-2 | sort | uniq

# Analyze by change type
git diff HEAD --name-status | while read status file; do
  case $status in
    A) echo "$file: new" ;;
    M) echo "$file: modified" ;;
    D) echo "$file: deleted" ;;
    R*) echo "$file: renamed" ;;
  esac
done

3. Detect Project Conventions

Check commit message conventions in this priority order:

1. CommitLint config (highest priority): Search for commitlint.config.*, .commitlintrc.*, or package.json commitlint section
2. Existing commit history: Analyze recent 50-100 commits for patterns
3. Project type: Detect from package.json, Cargo.toml, pom.xml, etc.
4. Conventional Commits standard (fallback)

# Search for CommitLint config
find . -maxdepth 1 -name "commitlint.config.*" -o -name ".commitlintrc.*" | head -1

# Analyze existing commit patterns
git log --oneline -50 --pretty=format:"%s" | grep -oE '^[a-z]+' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

4. Detect Language

Determine commit message language:

1. Check CommitLint config for subject-case: [0] (indicates Japanese)
2. Analyze recent 20 commits — if 50%+ contain Japanese characters → Japanese mode
3. Check README.md language
4. Default: English

# Count Japanese commits
git log --oneline -20 --pretty=format:"%s" | grep -cE '[あ-ん]|[ア-ン]|[一-龯]'

5. Propose Commit Splits

Present the proposed split to the user:

Proposed Commit Splits:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Commit 1/3
Message: feat: implement user registration and login
Files:
  • src/auth/login.ts
  • src/auth/register.ts
  • src/auth/types.ts

Commit 2/3
Message: test: add authentication tests
Files:
  • tests/auth.test.ts

Commit 3/3
Message: docs: add authentication documentation
Files:
  • docs/authentication.md

Proceed with these commits? (y/n/edit):

6. Execute Sequential Commits

# Reset staging area
git reset HEAD

# For each commit group:
# 1. Stage only the group's files
git add <file1> <file2> ...

# 2. Verify staged files
git diff --staged --name-only

# 3. Commit with generated message
git commit -m "$(cat <<'EOF'
<type>: <description>
EOF
)"

7. Post-Commit Verification

# Verify all changes are committed
git status --porcelain

# Show created commits
git log --oneline -n 10 --graph

Conventional Commits Format

<type>: <description>

[optional body]

[optional footer(s)]

Standard Types

Required:

• feat: New feature (user-visible functionality)
• fix: Bug fix

Optional:

• build: Build system or external dependency changes
• chore: Other changes (no release impact)
• ci: CI configuration changes
• docs: Documentation-only changes
• style: Code style changes (whitespace, formatting, semicolons)
• refactor: Code changes without bug fix or feature addition
• perf: Performance improvements
• test: Adding or modifying tests

User Interaction Options

• y: Execute proposed commit splits
• n: Cancel
• edit: Edit individual commit messages
• merge <num1> <num2>: Merge specified commits
• split <num>: Further split a specified commit

Error Handling

• On pre-commit hook failure: Retry up to 2 times, incorporating auto-fixes
• On interruption: Detect and offer to resume from last successful commit
• After completion: Verify no uncommitted changes remain

Rules

• No auto-push: Never run git push automatically
• No branch creation: Commit on the current branch
• Project conventions first: Always respect existing CommitLint config and commit patterns
• One logical change per commit: Each commit should represent a single cohesive change
• Separate tests: Test files should be in separate commits from implementation
• Backup recommended: Suggest git stash before processing important changes
• No scope, no breaking marker: Always use type: description format. Never include (scope) or ! in commit messages.