[FEATURE] Descriptive commit messages ... always?

[mlawren]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I occasionally review the Git log to see what changed where. The pass CLI writes commit messages that a) use my name and email address, and b) describe how the change was made to what. For example:

commit 359744374a1c2be4a866c825a19aa03fc232933d
Author: Mark Lawrence <mark@my.domain>
Date:   Fri Aug 21 10:12:59 2026 +0200

    Add password for some.host using /usr/bin/vim.

The commit from APS on the other hand is less informative:

commit 510e2b9e9d9db22e98f7f2997e0228945421d66c
Author: root <localhost>
Date:   Fri Sep 11 08:53:51 2026 +0200

    [Android Password Store] Sync

As I was writing this issue I began to wonder what the two different save icons actually do. So I made another edit and hit the other one. This time I got a better commit message.

commit 455672556091892f11d80a328797ec46275bf421
Author: root <localhost>
Date:   Fri Sep 11 09:13:19 2026 +0200

    Password some.domain edited using Android Password Store

So I actually have two minor issues:

1. I don't understand the difference between the two save icons. Where is that described, and could there be better way of displaying those actions?
2. The Author field in Git commits is sometimes not so useful.

I get that this is two issues in one... I'll split them if you consider either one worthwhile investigating.

Describe the solution you'd like

For the save action(s), perhaps there could just be one icon, that pops up a two-item menu with words describing what they do?

For the commit, does APS have access to something like the device account name? Device model?

Author: $NAME <Android-Password-Store@$DEVICE_MODEL>

Describe alternatives you've considered

No alternatives available.

Additional context

No response

[agrahn]

Thanks for the feedback.

When I tap either Save button on the "New password" form I am getting

"New password <entry's name> added using Android Password Store"

while on the "Edit password" form I am getting

"Password <entry's name> edited using Android Password Store"

as commit messages and similar ones for passkey additions/edits.

The only difference between the two Save buttons is that the one on the right-hand side copies the password to the clipboard for immediate use.

After all, I am getting commit messages which look very similar to those generated by pass CLI, e. g.

commit 83b434635457217e5d6883e99f9bc3a78530a30b (HEAD -> master)
Author: My Self <m.self@home.net>
Date:   Fri Sep 11 13:24:58 2026 +0200

    New password Social/MySpace.com added using Android Password Store

The Author field to be inserted in the Git commit can be configured in the app's settings (Settings > Repository > Local Git config & utilities). If no author is configured, the default root <localhost> is used (I will fix it to root <root@localhost>).

An "[Android Password Store] Sync" commit is only made if the passwords repo was externally modified, after exporting from APS, without committing the changes made and then re-imported. This is an unusual practice and not recommended at all, I do not see any of such records in my Git logs. Nevertheless, such changes are detected and committed by APS upon Git sync/pull operations, though without telling more detail than the cited sync message.

There are ways to retrieve device name/model/manufacturer information during runtime and maybe I will add such information to the commit messages in a future version.