Rewrite a finished commit message so the log hands off on its own — in the author's own voice, not an imposed one.
Goal
Repeated amends and momentum commits leave a message bloated, stale, or padded with trivia.
re0-git
rewrites the message into a clean version that lets a fresh session continue from
git log
alone, without reading the diff. It refines what the author already writes. Only the message moves — and timestamps, per the date rule below; the tree never changes.
It is
user-invoked
— run it once you've decided to commit. A commit-cleanup tool in the agent's reach would bias it toward committing when it shouldn't.
Workflow
Scope the target — usually
HEAD
, sometimes a short unpushed range.
Read the change (
git show --stat
,
git diff
) and any documented commit rules. Then sample nearby non-target messages: start with 10, stop earlier if the convention is obvious, or expand only until the convention is clear.
Resolve mixed logs in this order: documented project rules, nearby commits touching the same area, then same-author commits within that convention. Do not average incompatible styles or let one author's habits override the repo.
Rewrite the message to the
commit-economy
(below): keep only durable handoff facts, fold supporting edits into the change they serve, and cut anything the diff or tag already proves. Give trivia no bullet of its own.
Re-commit signed, dates per the rule below. For the tip (
HEAD
):
git commit --amend -S --date=now
— the
--date=now
is what moves the author date to now; a bare
--amend
resets only the committer date and leaves the author date stale. For an older commit, keeping its dates: rebuild it —
GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
/
GIT_COMMITTER_DATE git commit-tree
re0-git
安装
npx skills add https://github.com/lilmgenius/paperthin --skill re0-git