AI‑Powered One‑Command Git Commit Message Beautifier for Clean Project History

Repository

GitHub repository https://github.com/f/git-rewrite-commits (≈1.2k stars) provides the git-rewrite-commits CLI that rewrites existing git commit messages using AI and then requires a forced push.

Prerequisites

Supports OpenAI GPT or a local Ollama model. The example uses Ollama’s cloud model. Install Ollama following its quick‑start guide (https://docs.ollama.com/quickstart) and obtain a quota by signing in with ollama signin.

Core command

npx git-rewrite-commits --provider ollama --model qwen3-coder:480b-cloud --min-quality-score 10 --language zh --verbose

Additional options are listed with npx git-rewrite-commits --help.

Example workflow (personal blog project)

Run the command; the tool prompts “Confirm? (y)”. Enter y.

The rewrite process starts.

When the AI has generated new commit messages, the tool asks “Rewrite? (y)”. Confirm with y to apply the changes.

After rewriting, the tool displays a forced‑push reminder.

Execute git push --force-with-lease to update the remote repository.

Post‑rewrite verification and recovery

git log --oneline

– view the rewritten history.

If the result is satisfactory, keep the forced push.

If problems occur, restore the original branch with git reset --hard backup-main-1765263878856.

Delete the temporary backup branch with git branch -D backup-main-176526387885.

Summary

The git-rewrite-commits tool leverages an AI model (e.g., Ollama’s qwen3-coder:480b-cloud) to generate clean, standardized commit messages for repositories with poorly written histories, allowing the entire rewrite and push to be performed with a single CLI invocation.