Come on Windsurf team, this is the highest point of friction in my workflow now. You've made everything else so smooth and effortless. Please add this feature ASAP

Before each commit, I open VSCode with CoPilot just for the commit message

Agreed, this should be a core feature. However, just asking in the chat to write a commit message over the last changeset usually does the trick. It truly is mind boggling why this wasn't there on day one given its not the hardest feature on earth.

If this helps anyone, I've been pre-baking the commit diff as a removable comment into my commit messages, and then using auto-complete to write the message. https://gist.github.com/klondikemarlen/042039a7061077573141dbf237962335.

~I also am confused that auto-generated commit messages isn't an core feature. Maybe it's just too hard still?~ Apparently it _is_ a thing https://docs.cursor.com/more/ai-commit-message

EDIT: actually was not a thing, since trying command threw an error (maybe just a stub?), but now maybe it _really_ is, as of v 1.6.1 (https://codeium.com/changelog)?

this seems to be a top feature which is just not getting implemented why? Is there any work around to get one working

Also, on each commit inside a conversation, I need to tell Windsurf again to read the previous commits (git log --oneline -5) to give him the context for a proper message following the convention. It should be automatically

Need it badly

This feature must be as tough as deepseek r2

My commit messages are simply copied from my todo list task titles, which seems to me like the best flow, but with this many people requesting this feature, must be some benefit to automating the message that I'm missing?

Ref 👇 even co pilot has this now