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Re: Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git

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Post by danthelion »

phneutral26 wrote: post #3

I think this would be a wonderful tool for git learners if you would explain the git commands a bit. For example: git add *.py ; This command adds all the python files to the staging list. You get the gist.

git-genie does this with the —explain flag! https://github.com/danthelion/git-genie

Also GPT-based

Re: Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git

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Post by kurthr »

gdcbe wrote: post #4

Not sure what value it adds though. Isn’t it easier to type the cmds then to write all that? If there’s a good product in it I’m afraid your examples aren’t selling it :S Was first thinking it could have value for when you forget a cmd or when learning, but I think if you can come up with those technical instructions you can also remember the cmds …

Seems like a way to make your CMS even more terrifying.

Like, oops not add I meant push, wait remove that! or was it rebase? I'll just reflog to get back to umm... wait what?

I guess the saving grace is that it'll do the most common things people usually want to do, but for some things english language just not specific enough (like law).

Re: Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git

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Post by yodon »

I've been waiting for someone to build this. My hope is it will simplify recovering from the myriad forms of "I just did something I didn't want" that occasionally happen with git (and that I've historically used [0] to resolve)

[0]https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html

Re: Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git

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Post by SparkyMcUnicorn »

Nice! I don't intend to discount the work you've done here, but want to point out that GitHub Copilot has a CLI tool for exactly this as well as other arbitrary shell commands. It's pretty polished and has performed well for me so far.

It is on a waitlist, but I got accepted after a couple weeks.

https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-cli/

Re: Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git

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Post by ldehaan »

gdcbe wrote: post #4

Not sure what value it adds though. Isn’t it easier to type the cmds then to write all that? If there’s a good product in it I’m afraid your examples aren’t selling it :S Was first thinking it could have value for when you forget a cmd or when learning, but I think if you can come up with those technical instructions you can also remember the cmds …

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Re: Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git

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Post by mellosouls »

gdcbe wrote: post #4

Not sure what value it adds though. Isn’t it easier to type the cmds then to write all that? If there’s a good product in it I’m afraid your examples aren’t selling it :S Was first thinking it could have value for when you forget a cmd or when learning, but I think if you can come up with those technical instructions you can also remember the cmds …

Not sure what value it adds though. Isn’t it easier to type the cmds then to write all that?

It's pretty obvious it's intended use cases include memory prompts for experienced users and translations from English requirements for inexperienced users.

It's even in the OP:

use natural language to get git to do what you want.

Re: Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git

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Post by KMnO4 »

ilaksh wrote: post #15

This is cool but I tried sending the same text with my general purpose GPT (text-davinci-003) command line tool and it did the same thing. This one is mine: https://github.com/runvc/askleo There are other ones of course.

I’m just curious, why does everyone use DaVinci for these sorta applications? Even the 2nd best model (Curie) is 10x cheaper and I’m sure would perform nearly as well.
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