Git diff is not enough for the model to understand the commit.

[BritishTeapot]

Just the git diff is too little information for the model to understand the commit. Diffs only show local changes, not factoring in the global logic of the codebase. Lack of information also opens the door for hallucination, which is especially undesirable for commit messages that are meant to be truthful descriptions of code changes.

Proposed solution:

Give user the ability to insert more information about the program, for example:

1. Paste the readme into the context, to give LLMs the oeverall understanding of the project.
2. Be able to exted diffs to entire files not just the parts that were changed.

So far those are just ideas. It's difficult to say how LLMs will actually perform with this.

[friedFat]

maybe also add more lines of contex, like git diff -U20 --staged