Document how to include time in commit message about gtm HOT 3 OPEN

Hi! I'm pretty interested in gtm, as it parallels something I've been thinking of doing for a long time.

In my own planning, I was assuming I'd integrate with my existing commit-labeling system, called gitlabels. (For me, this is a part of a personal crusade to start exposing “effort invested” numbers on open-source work, to help encourage newbies who feel swamped and incapable — for instance, I'm also time-labeling blog posts.)

So, I guess this is an advertisement for my work, and offer to integrate efforts.

Here's an example of one possible format for time-taken-information, as an example of an automatically-appended timing record:

(!! new API revert inc!) Replace ::walk with Giraphe

This was half-a-year in the making; bit of a black-triangle moment. 🤣

/time-invested "T11H42M"

(Yanked that format from ISO 8601, after removing the P, as the fact that it's a duration is implicit and a given in this case.)

Alternatively a shorter form (and these are explicitly equivalent), although I'm not a huge fan, as it wastes extremely-limited first-line-real-estate:

(!! new API revert inc! took:T11H42M) Replace ::walk with Giraphe

This was half-a-year in the making; bit of a black-triangle moment. 🤣

I'd be willing to apply some implementation-work here, although I may only be able to help with the Vim and sh implementations (my Go is non-existent).

Any thoughts? 😊

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A nice way to integrate with gtm is via a git pre-commit hook to populate the commit message with the time spent. Take a look at this #72. Does that do accomplish what you are looking for?

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Oh, I'm sure I can scrape and manipulate the data into the format for my personal use; I just thought this might be a nice on-by-default feature of gtm (encoding the time information into commits.)

To do it nicely, gtm might need to wrap git (saw some discussion of this elsewhere), though.

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