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Fetch comical VC commit messages from whatthecommit.com
There are 2 alternatives - vote for the best!
Requires html2text. Print bad, but often funny commit messages from whatthecommit.com
#Sample Usage:
# git commit -m"Jira #404 - `whatthecommit`"
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Fetch comical VC commit messages from whatthecommit.com
If you can do better, submit your command here.
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Unfortunately, scraping sites tends to be brittle; site redesign causes existing methods of extracting the information you want to break. The first method needs to change the 2p in the sed command to 4p to work with the current version of the site, but is actually the best implementation up there.
And I just found all this is unnecessary. http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt returns just the commit message generated.