Git commits

• Conventional Commits

Commit message linters

commitizen

see semantic-versioning.md

commitlint

• Website
• GitHub
• Getting started
• Rules
• Official container image
• 3rd party pre-commit hooks only:
  • alessandrojcm/commitlint-pre-commit-hook
  • solarmonkey/commitlint-pre-commit-hook/
    • Last commit 2023

Install:

npm install -g @commitlint/cli @commitlint/config-conventional

System packages:

pamac install commitlint-config-conventional commitlint

Issue: Cannot find module "@commitlint/config-conventional" from "/home/varac"

Configure:

echo -e 'extends:\n  - "@commitlint/config-conventional"' > ~/.commitlintrc.yaml

Usage:

Check last commit:

commitlint --from HEAD~1 --to HEAD --verbose

Limitations:

• Requires a config file even for simple custom rules

pre-commit checks

• Verify that a commit message contains some string with pre-commit
  • Disadvantage: Doesn't give any hint what is wrong with the commit msg

Stale projects

gitlint

Website Config files

Add a default .gitlint file:

gitlint generate-config

Ignore body-is-missing rule:

echo '[general]\nignore=body-is-missing' > .gitlint