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Committing guide

Joao Maio edited this page Sep 6, 2021 · 2 revisions

Angular commit message guidelines:

Type

Must be one of the following:

  • build: Changes that affect the build system or external dependencies (example scopes: gulp, broccoli, npm)
  • ci: Changes to our CI configuration files and scripts (example scopes: Travis, Circle, BrowserStack, SauceLabs)
  • docs: Documentation only changes
  • feat: A new feature
  • fix: A bug fix
  • perf: A code change that improves performance
  • refactor: A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature
  • style: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)
  • test: Adding missing tests or correcting existing tests

(from @commitlint/config-conventional)

Lint your conventional commits

@commitlint/config-conventional

Shareable commitlint config enforcing conventional commits. Use with @commitlint/cli and @commitlint/prompt-cli.

Getting started

npm install --save-dev @commitlint/config-conventional @commitlint/cli
echo "module.exports = {extends: ['@commitlint/config-conventional']};" > commitlint.config.js

Rules

Problems

The following rules are considered problems for @commitlint/config-conventional and will yield a non-zero exit code when not met.

Consult docs/rules for a list of available rules.

type-enum

  • condition: type is found in value

  • rule: always

  • level: error

  • value

    [
      'build',
      'ci',
      'chore',
      'docs',
      'feat',
      'fix',
      'perf',
      'refactor',
      'revert',
      'style',
      'test'
    ];
    
echo "foo: some message" # fails
echo "fix: some message" # passes

type-case

  • description: type is in case value
  • rule: always
  • level: error
  • value
    'lowerCase'
    
echo "FIX: some message" # fails
echo "fix: some message" # passes

type-empty

  • condition: type is empty
  • rule: never
  • level: error
echo ": some message" # fails
echo "fix: some message" # passes

scope-case

  • condition: scope is in case value
  • rule: always
  • level: error
'lowerCase'
echo "fix(SCOPE): some message" # fails
echo "fix(scope): some message" # passes

subject-case

  • condition: subject is in one of the cases ['sentence-case', 'start-case', 'pascal-case', 'upper-case']
  • rule: never
  • level: error
echo "fix(SCOPE): Some message" # fails
echo "fix(SCOPE): Some Message" # fails
echo "fix(SCOPE): SomeMessage" # fails
echo "fix(SCOPE): SOMEMESSAGE" # fails
echo "fix(scope): some message" # passes
echo "fix(scope): some Message" # passes

subject-empty

  • condition: subject is empty
  • rule: never
  • level: error
echo "fix:" # fails
echo "fix: some message" # passes

subject-full-stop

  • condition: subject ends with value
  • rule: never
  • level: error
  • value
'.'
echo "fix: some message." # fails
echo "fix: some message" # passes

header-max-length

  • condition: header has value or less characters
  • rule: always
  • level: error
  • value
100
echo "fix: some message that is way too long and breaks the line max-length by several characters" # fails
echo "fix: some message" # passes

footer-leading-blank

  • condition: footer should have a leading blank line
  • rule: always
  • level: warning
  • value
100
echo "fix: some message
BREAKING CHANGE: It will be significant" # warning

echo "fix: some message

BREAKING CHANGE: It will be significant" # passes

footer-max-line-length

  • condition: footer each line has value or less characters
  • rule: always
  • level: error
  • value
100
echo "fix: some message

BREAKING CHANGE: footer with multiple lines
has a message that is way too long and will break the line rule 'line-max-length' by several characters" # fails

echo "fix: some message

BREAKING CHANGE: footer with multiple lines
but still no line is too long" # passes

body-leading-blank

  • condition: body should have a leading blank line
  • rule: always
  • level: warning
  • value
100;
echo "fix: some message
body" # warning

echo "fix: some message

body" # passes

body-max-line-length

  • condition: body each line has value or less characters
  • rule: always
  • level: error
  • value
100;
echo "fix: some message

body with multiple lines
has a message that is way too long and will break the line rule 'line-max-length' by several characters" # fails

echo "fix: some message

body with multiple lines
but still no line is too long" # passes