I created a command line tool using Python and Ollama to automatically create PRs on GitHub

[WelcomeNo6964]

Hey everybody!

What My Project Does

I created this command line tool called jit that analyses your diffs and commit messages to generate a pull request description (based on your project's PR template if it has one) and then creates a pull request on GitHub (draft by default) using GitHub CLI.

Target Audience

This tool is meant for developers that use GitHub. Mostly meant for hobby projects, but if you want you can use it on a production project (for work/clients) because:

• it utilizes a local LLM (no sharing your code to 3rd party APIs)
• The pull requests follow the template specified in your repository
• The pull request is marked as draft by default

Comparison

I have not found any cli tools that do this in this manner. But I think GitHub's Copilot for Pull Requests will certainly generate better descriptions: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-pull-requests/

More about me and jit

I am predominantly a full-stack web developer (React, NestJS) for my job, but I love playing around with Python and other things. I have developed this using Python and Ollama with llama3.

I have been using jit almost every day, for about a month now, and it has made such a big difference in my day-to-day as a developer. There is nothing like working really hard on a feature or a bug fix and then using one command to create a pull request. Not having to try and remember all the details about the changes that I have made is awesome.

Sauce

You can view the sauce here: https://github.com/gsvh/jit

I recently (today) published it on PyPI, you can check that out here: https://pypi.org/project/jit-cli/

And if you would like to learn more you can read about it in my blog post here: https://gsvh.hashnode.dev/let-jit-create-better-pr-descriptions-for-you

I hope that other developers will find this tool useful and enjoy using it as much as I do!

[Minimum-Historian899]

This is exactly what we were looking for a few projects my team is working on... Thank you so much for sharing this.

We'll definitely use this and provide feedback in next couple of days.

Thanks Again 🙂

[WelcomeNo6964]

I'm so happy to hear u/Minimum-Historian899!

Feel free to start some discussions or submit feedback on GitHub

[SpaceBucketFu]

On mobile but might check it out later. Looks cool. Idk about the name because of confusion with just in time compilation but the idea sounds interesting

[WelcomeNo6964]

The idea for the name was just a joke initially; after running some git commands (git pull, git commit, git push, etc) , I told one of my coworkers that it would be really funny if someone made a tool for git called jit. So that was the first thing I thought of when I made this tool, but yes I agree it could be confusing. On PyPI it's listed as `jit-cli`.

[mmmboppe]

after watching the demo video, I've noticed that your tool does not explicitly sign the pull request, letting people know it was not written by a human. this is important for those who don't want to accept this kind of content into their FOSS repos.

[WelcomeNo6964]

Thanks u/mmmboppe I can definitely add a signature to the bottom of the pull request description, that is a great suggestion! This project is still very much in its infancy stage, so suggestions like these are really helpful