Shell commands for better commit messages (via Artsy/Orta)

git_commit_helpers

# Lovely little suite of functions to automate better commit messages, from:
# http://artsy.github.io/blog/2016/03/02/Lazily-Automation/

# I'm a zsh user, so I stash these into my home directory,
# and then add the following reference to my .zshrc: source $HOME/git_commit_helpers

function git_branch_info
  git branch ^/dev/null | grep \* | sed 's/* //'
end

function branch
  git checkout master;
  git pull upstream master;
  git checkout -b $argv[1]
  git config branch.$argv[1].description $argv[2]
end

function commit
  set BRANCH (git_branch_info)
  set INFO (git config branch.(echo $BRANCH).description)
  git commit -m "[$INFO] $argv"
  # I would like the ability to selectively add single or multiple specific files to my commits!
  # Need to figure out how I can update the last command to do this
end

function context
  set BRANCH (git_branch_info)
  git config branch.(echo $BRANCH).description $argv[1]
end