simple-commit-message

Simple commit message wizard and validator; works with commitizen and pre-git

Purpose

This module can:

• parse simple commit message of the type type(scope): message
• validate a given message if it fits the above simple format
• guide the user with questions in order to form well formatted message

Valid commit messages

Simplest

major: breaking change in API
minor: this is a new feature
fix: an example fix message

Synonyms

For convenience you can use synonyms:

• "break: ..." is synonym to "major: ..."
• "feat: ..." is synonym to "minor: ..."
• "patch: ..." is synonym to "fix: ..."

Scopes

You can optionally put a scope for the commit. For example if you added a new feature to the log feature of the module

feat(log): added colors!

Similarly, you can add scope to each type

major(scope): breaking change in API
minor(something): this is a new feature
fix(login): an example fix message

Skip release

If you just want to commit code, but not publish a new version from CI, you have several choices.

chore(tests): writing more tests
WIP: work in progress, not ready yet

note if you have local commit message validation as a Git hook, for example using pre-git skip the message check using git commit -n option.

Comments

The commit message can have lines that start with # character. These lines will be ignored.

Install and use

npm install --save simple-commit-message

Then use the following methods

var simple = require('simple-commit-message')
simple.name // "simple"
// returns an object with parsed info
const result = simple.parse(message)
/*
  {
    firstLine, // first message line
    type,      // "major", "feat", "fix", "chore" or undefined
    scope,     // inside of round braces
    subject    // message after :
*/
// returns true / false, prints errors to given log function or console.error
simple.validate(message, log)
// message wizard built on top of inquirer
simple.prompter(inquirer, cb)
// returns true if the commit message is public ("feat", etc)
simple.isPublic(
  simple.parse("feat(foo): add foo feature").type
) // true

See inquirer for details.

As plugin for semantic-release

This module can function as analyzeCommits plugin for semantic-release. Just add to the configuration file

{
  "analyzeCommits": "simple-commit-message"
}

Versions

• 1 ... 3.x compatible with semantic-release v8
• 4 compatible with semantic-release v11

Wizard

This module comes with included "bin" script that runs the wizard and asks you the questions. To use, add a script to your package, for example name it "commit"

{
    "scripts": {
        "commit": "simple-commit-message"
    }
}

Then instead of git commit use the command npm run commit and answer questions.

Related

• conventional-commit-message is based on AngularJS log standard and has more commit types allowed.

Debugging

To see the commit processing logic locally, run

GH_TOKEN=aaa NPM_TOKEN=fff $(npm bin)/semantic-release pre || true && git checkout .npmrc

This will trigger local commit analysis without publishing.

To see debug log messages run this plugin with DEBUG=simple environment variable.

Small print

Author: Gleb Bahmutov © 2015

• @bahmutov
• glebbahmutov.com
• blog

License: MIT - do anything with the code, but don't blame me if it does not work.

Spread the word: tweet, star on github, etc.

Support: if you find any problems with this module, email / tweet / open issue on Github

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2015 Gleb Bahmutov

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.