
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