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by masto 506 days ago
I tried this with a random commit from one of my projects: https://github.com/masto/LED-Marquee/commit/775d48fc0dd969de.... You can read my human-crafted message there. By comparison, what follows is the one that Gemini came up with which is A: useless, and B: wrong. I don't want to be mean, but I would put this up there as almost the perfect example of what generative AI should never be used for. It cannot read your mind, and the commit description is where you say what the intention of the change is, not summarize what it contains.

  Fix: Remove platformio.ini from .gitignore and rename platformio.ini.dist
  
  This commit removes platformio.ini from the .gitignore file and renames
  platformio.ini.dist to platformio.ini. This allows the project's PlatformIO 
  configuration to be tracked by Git and ensures consistent build settings across
  development environments. It also adds comments explaining how to configure OTA
  updates and override settings with a separate marquee.ini file.