Lint your commits, angular-style

@commitlint/config-angular

Shareable commitlint config enforcing the Angular commit convention. Use with @commitlint/cli and @commitlint/prompt-cli.

Getting started

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

Rules

Problems

The following rules are considered problems for @commitlint/config-angular 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

value

[
  'build',
  'ci',
  '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
value
```
'lowerCase'
```

echo "FIX: some message" # fails
echo "fix: some message" # passes

type-empty

condition: type is empty
rule: never

echo ": some message" # fails
echo "fix: some message" # passes

scope-case

condition: scope is in case value
rule: always

'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

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

echo "fix:" # fails
echo "fix: some message" # passes

subject-full-stop

condition: subject ends with value
rule: never
value

'.'

echo "fix: some message." # fails
echo "fix: some message" # passes

subject-exclamation-mark

condition: subject must not have a ! before the : marker
rule: never

The angular commit convention does not use a ! to define a breaking change in the commit subject. If you want to use this feature please consider using the conventional commit config.

header-max-length

condition: header has value or less characters
rule: always
value

echo "fix: some message that is way too long and breaks the line max-length by several characters" # fails
echo "fix: some message" # passes

Warnings

The following rules are considered warnings for @commitlint/config-angular and will print warning messages when not met.