# README
Comet Alt
An alternatively configured Comet to suit my own preferences. The way I've changed the original is for it to look and feel more like Commitizen when invoking its sub-command commit. My only gripe was that the start-up speed was a tad on the slow side sometimes, given that it is Python, and that customizing the prompts wasn't as straight-forward as with Comet.
What I missed with Comet though was that Commitizen's commit by default keeps the values given for previous prompts on the screen, as seen in the demo, and that in and of itself was a major sticking point in continuing to use Comet.
Other minor changes include a fix to the prompt that asks for a commit message body that was misaligned and a check prior to running that confirms whether there are even any files that can be committed (i.e. are in the staging area).
Installation
- using
go install:
go install github.com/usrme/comet-alt@latest
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download a binary from the releases page
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build it yourself (requires Go 1.17+):
git clone https://github.com/usrme/comet-alt.git
cd comet-alt
go build
Removal
rm -f "${GOPATH}/bin/comet-alt"
rm -rf "${GOPATH}/pkg/mod/github.com/usrme/comet-alt*"
Usage
There is an additional comet.json file that includes the prefixes and descriptions that I most prefer myself, which can be added to either the root of a repository or to one's home directory as .comet.json. Omitting this means that the same defaults are used as in the original.
Acknowledgments
Couldn't have been possible without the work of Liam Galvin.