RequestHN: Automatic Git Commit Names

3 points by aaronsnoswell 12y ago ↗ HN

I would love an extension to Git that takes commit hashes and generates / picks a random comical sentence-case name instead.

E.g. 'commit b24068df769197804e4349230af84703be4ab699' might become 'commit FunkyYellowDonkey'.

This would make it much easier for the end-user to quickly compare commit revisions.

Does anyone know of a Git plugin that does this? I would write it myself when/if I have the time.

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This would be analogous in some respects to a feature in GitHub - when creating a new repository, it offers a random funky name to use.

skram 12y ago ↗

Herkou does a similar thing.

OP - You might want to look at bountify.co to motivate someone to build this for you.