This is badly needed, the fact that I can get (quite good) Codeium and GitHub Copilot auto-generated commit messages from the Source Control box in VS Code but can't get either in Windsurf is frustrating. That and having to reconfigure various things like code auto-formatting and indentation like VS Code (having to go figure out how to copy that over) are the two things that are keeping me from going Windsurf all the time instead of running both regularly.

Cursor does this well already but I submitted the same thing to them I'm submitting to you now:

If there's a commitlintrc.json file in the repository, respect whatever it says when auto-generating the commit message.

This would would allow "one-shotting" commits using AI which would do wonders to keep us "in the flow" on our surfboards.

This should work both when you ask Cascade to commit but also with the regular source control commit message window.

The commit message generator should use only the _staged_ files for context. Often I have changed files that are not staged because they are not ready to be committed, but the current system takes those into account as well.

this global rule helps a lot: https://github.com/SchneiderSam/awesome-windsurfrules/blob/main/rules/global_rules/commit-message-long-global_rules-prompt-file/global_rules.md

It’s not just about committing; it’s also about using proper prefixes like feat:, doc:, test:, etc., to maintain clarity and consistency.

see a simple example:

We’ve transitioned back to using Visual Studio with Codeium.

While it may be less interactive than some tools, it allows us to effectively handle developer comments and maintain accurate changelogs.

This little thing (GitHub Copilot auto commit message) saves me sooo much time! Please team, add this feature to Windsurf 🙏

plz:

4.It has been observed that the AI performs poorly when it comes to file copying tasks and cannot properly complete

simple file copy operations. Would it be better to trigger a function to execute file copy operations locally instead of

having the AI handle it line by line?

It can do that

You can ask it in the cascade mode to write a commit and it will do it based in changes done and will run the command

and generate commit message prompt like gitlens, specifies the prompt to use to tell the codeium provider how to structure or format the generated commit message