GitHub - can-taslicukur/gait: Review your code changes in a git repository using an LLM

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gait

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gait is a command line tool that helps you review code changes in a git repository using an LLM. gait commands generates diffs based on git commands, and (currently) uses OpenAI's chat completion models to provide code review suggestions.

Getting Started

Installation

You can install gait using pip:

Currently, gait only supports OpenAI chat completion models. To use any of the commands, you can either set the OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable

export OPENAI_API_KEY='YOUR API KEY HERE'

or pass your OpenAI API key manually with --openai-api-key option.

Commands

  • Add: Review changes between the working tree and the index.

  • Commit: Review changes between the index and the HEAD.

  • Merge: Review the result of merging a feature branch into the HEAD.

    gait merge <feature_branch>

  • Push: Review the changes between the HEAD and the remote.

  • Pull Request (PR): Review the result of a pull request from HEAD to the target branch in the remote.

    gait pr <target_branch> [remote]

Options

  • --openai_api_key: Specify the OpenAI API key. Can also be set via OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable.
  • --model: Choose the OpenAI GPT model for reviews (default: gpt-4-turbo-preview).
  • --temperature: Set the temperature for model responses (range: 0-2) (default: 1).
  • --system_prompt: Use a custom system prompt for diff patches.
  • --unified: Context line length on each side of the diff hunk (default: 3).

Help

To get help, run gait --help.

To get help on a specific command, run gait <command> --help.