Lint commit messages

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• 🚓 Be a good commitizen
• 📦 Share configuration via npm
• 🤖 Tap into conventional-changelog

• Getting started
• CLI
• Config
• Shared configuration
• API
• Tools
• Roadmap
• Version Support
• Related projects
• License
• Development
  • Install and run
  • Publishing a release

# Install commitlint cli and angular config
npm install --save-dev @commitlint/{config-conventional,cli}
# For Windows:
npm install --save-dev @commitlint/config-conventional @commitlint/cli

# Configure commitlint to use angular config
echo "module.exports = {extends: ['@commitlint/config-conventional']}" > commitlint.config.js

To lint commits before they are created you can use the 'commitmsg' hook as described here

{
  "scripts": {
    "commitmsg": "commitlint -e $GIT_PARAMS"
  }
}

Detailed Setup instructions

• Local setup - Lint messages on commit with husky
• CI setup - Lint messages during CI builds

• Primary way to interact with commitlint.
• npm install --save-dev @commitlint/cli
• Packages: cli

• Configuration is picked up from commitlint.config.js, .commitlintrc.js, .commitlintrc.json, or .commitlintrc.yml file or a commitlint field in package.json
• Packages: cli, core
• See Rules for a complete list of possible rules
• An example configuration can be found at @commitlint/config-conventional

A number of shared configurations are available to install and use with commitlint:

• @commitlint/config-angular
• @commitlint/config-conventional
• @commitlint/config-lerna-scopes
• @commitlint/config-patternplate
• conventional-changelog-lint-config-atom
• conventional-changelog-lint-config-canonical

• Alternative, programatic way to interact with commitlint
• Packages:
  • format - Format commitlint reports
  • lint - Lint a string against commitlint rules
  • load - Load shared commitlint configuration
  • read - Read commit messages from a specified range or last edit
• See API for a complete list of methods and examples

• commitizen adapter
• prompt

Ideas: marionebl/commitlint#94

commitlint is considered stable and is used in various projects as development tool.

We indentify ease of adoption and developer experience as fields where there is room and need for improvement. The items on the roadmap should enhance commitlint regarding those aspects.

• Adoption: Provide reusable Travis CI integration: @commitlint/travis-cli (https://github.com/marionebl/commitlint/releases/tag/v5.1.0)
• DX: Support PR squash scenario via ahmed-taj/commitlint-bot and @commitlint/travis-cli
• Adoption: Make ahmed-taj/commitlint-bot configurable via commitlint configuration
• Adoption: Create commitlint init
• DX: Extend the configuration schema to allow for additional fields (descriptions, examples, fixes) on both the rule and value level
• DX: Incorporate an extended version of lennym/commit-template deducing a template from commitlint configuration
• DX: Rewrite @commitlint/prompt for better usability (might involve a lot of yak-shaving)

• Node.js LTS >= 4.8
• git >= 2

• conventional-changelog – Generate a changelog from conventional commit history
• commitizen – Simple commit conventions for internet citizens
• create-semantic-module – CLI for quickly integrating commitizen and commitlint in new or existing projects

Copyright by @marionebl. All commitlint packages are released under the MIT license.

commitlint is developed in a mono repository.

git clone [email protected]:marionebl/commitlint.git
cd commitlint
npx yarn install
npx yarn run build # run build tasks
npx yarn start # run tests, again on change

For more information on how to contribute please take a look at our contribution guide.

npx yarn run clean
npx yarn install
npx yarn run build
npx yarn test
npx yarn run publish