Thanks, good idea!

I'm after this myself.

I've being using git commit message template, but it doesn't give full functionality i need.

Do you think the extension should create from configured commit.template value? And read ThisIsARequest from _COMMIT_MSG or whatever txt file on disc.

Then it is a natural flow.

I like _COMMIT_MSG as a file in the repo and then ignore the file globally and put my content in there. It fills the commit msg whether using the CLI or the Git pane, so works without my extension.

The tricky bit is that the template message should appear at the start of end of the final generated message.

A hack for the short term, based on current implementation of the extension

So far if you do this with a colon

ThisIsARequest docs:

and run the extension, you'll get your file changes listed. But docs won't change.

so it will be generated as

ThisIsARequest docs: update 4 files delete 1 file

While

ThisIsARequest

will result in unfortunately.

feat: update 4 files delete 1 file ThisIsARequest 

I have work in progress in #64. I'll update here when I get further with it.