Gim

Commit Driven Development Git-CLI Command Line Utility

Installation

1. Ensure you have Git and Rust installed.
2. Install gim using Cargo:

   cargo install gim

Functionality

gim provides the following commands:

gim set {COMMIT_MESSAGE}

• Accepts a string argument for the planned commit message.
• The commit message is stored inside the .COMMIT_MESSAGE file.

  Note: Don't worry about adding a .COMMIT_MESSAGE file yourself (or adding it to .gitignore), gim takes care of that for you!

• replaces the current commit message

gim edit

• Opens system default editor to edit current commit message

gim add {ADDED_MESSAGE}

• Appends the ADDED_MESSAGE to the current commit message. Used for multiline commits

gim push

• Equivalent to git add . && git commit -m $COMMIT_MESSAGE && git push.
• Allows optional argument for inclusion of specific files, similar to git add $FILES.
• Upon a successful push, the .COMMIT_MESSAGE file is cleared, excluding comments.

gim status or just gim

• Displays the current gim planned commit message at the top of the normal git status output.

gim clear

• Clears the stored commit message.

gim clear full

• Fully clears the stored commit message, comments included.

gim help

• Prints the command descriptions to the console.