From the course: Coding Smarter with JetBrains AI Assistant

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Craft meaningful commit messages with AI

Craft meaningful commit messages with AI

- [Instructor] In Java development, your commit history becomes documentation. When you're tracking down a bug introduced three months ago, commit messages like, "Fix, or, "Working now," tell you absolutely nothing. Good commit messages should answer three questions. What changed, why did it change, and what's the impact? This is especially important when you're working on complex Java applications where a single change might affect multiple modules. Instead of struggling to summarize your changes, you can ask the JetBrains AI assistant to analyze your diff and suggest meaningful commit messages. First, you'll stage your changes as usual. You can do this with the git add command or with the native GitHub integration in IntelliJ. To enable this integration, we'll go to settings and search for staging area, and we'll check this box to enable the staging area. Let's stage the changes we want to commit. We'll go to the commit pane, and in here, we can stage those changes. We'll click the…

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