[Bug]: most of the time it does not work at all

[casidiablo]

Opencommit Version

3.2.10

Node Version

24.10

NPM Version

11.6.0

What OS are you seeing the problem on?

Mac

What happened?

I would say 90% of the time OCO does not work; instead it returns:

❯ oco
┌  open-commit
│
◇  3 staged files:
  journals/2025_10_21.md
  journals/2025_10_23.md
  logseq/custom.css
│
◇  ✖ Failed to generate the commit message
Error: EMPTY_MESSAGE
    at generateCommitMessageByDiff (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/opencommit/out/cli.cjs:67375:13)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)
    at async generateCommitMessageFromGitDiff (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/opencommit/out/cli.cjs:67595:25)
    at async trytm (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/opencommit/out/cli.cjs:67563:18)
    at async commit (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/opencommit/out/cli.cjs:67768:35)
│
└  ✖ EMPTY_MESSAGE

When it does work it is amazing and brings me to tears; but yeah, most of the time it does not.

If it's worth anything, I am using a Gemini token and the model is set to Gemini 2.5 Flash (tried other models too, but got same behavior)

Expected Behavior

It should work always; or at the very least print a better error message.

Current Behavior

It just fails

Possible Solution

No response

Steps to Reproduce

No response

Relevant log output

[casidiablo]

I experimented removing the max token config from gemini.ts, and when I do it works always 🤷🏽

[rewrit3]

I experimented removing the max token config from gemini.ts, and when I do it works always 🤷🏽

Could you show me how you did that, please?

[casidiablo]

1. Clone this repo.
2. Find the gemini.ts file and remove this line:

   opencommit/src/engine/gemini.ts

   Line 69 in ebbaff0

   maxOutputTokens: this.config.maxTokensOutput,

3. Compile the thing npm run build
4. Replace the binary that was installed with the new one cp out/cli.cjs /opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/opencommit/out/cli.cjs

[rewrit3]

1. Clone this repo.

2. Find the gemini.ts file and remove this line:

     [opencommit/src/engine/gemini.ts](https://github.com/di-sukharev/opencommit/blob/ebbaff0628cfd8ae14495bd456f9a2e8e47967c5/src/engine/gemini.ts#L69)
   
   
        Line 69
     in
     [ebbaff0](/di-sukharev/opencommit/commit/ebbaff0628cfd8ae14495bd456f9a2e8e47967c5)
   
   
   
   
   
       
         
          maxOutputTokens: this.config.maxTokensOutput,
   

3. Compile the thing npm run build

4. Replaced the binary that was installed in my machine with the new one cp out/cli.cjs /opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/opencommit/out/cli.cjs

It worked.. thank you very much!