Enhancing Commit Messages with Human Context

Enhancing Commit Messages with Human Context

Optimizing developer communication through LLM-assisted refinement

This research introduces Commit Message Optimization (CMO), a novel approach to enhance human-written commit messages by leveraging the contexts that human developers consider important.

  • Identifies critical contexts that developers use but automated tools often miss
  • Proposes a framework to refine existing commit messages rather than generating them from scratch
  • Demonstrates significant improvements in clarity and informativeness of commit messages
  • Establishes a new direction for AI-assisted software documentation

For engineering teams, this research provides a practical solution to improve code documentation quality and team communication while respecting human expertise and workflow patterns.

Consider What Humans Consider: Optimizing Commit Message Leveraging Contexts Considered By Human

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