Git Conventional Commits

ℹ Have a look at Git Commit Conventions

Changelog

see CHANGELOG.md

Install

npm install --global git-conventional-commits

Usage

• Create config file git-conventional-commits init
• Adjust config git-conventional-commits.json to your needs

Commands

ℹ add help parameter -h to commands to list all possible options

  init [options]                               creates a config file template `git-conventional-commits.json`
  version [options]                            determine version from conventional commits
  changelog [options]                          generate change log from conventional commits
  commit-msg-hook [options] <commit-msg-file>  check for conventional commit message format

Config File

Example git-conventional-commits.json

{
  "convention" : {
    "commitTypes": [
      "feat",
      "fix",
      "perf",
      "refactor",
      "style",
      "test",
      "build",
      "ops",
      "docs",
      "merge"
    ],
    "commitScopes": [],
    "releaseTagGlobPattern":  "v[0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]*",
    "issueRegexPattern": "(^|\\s)#\\d+(\\s|$)"
  },

  "changelog" : {
    "commitTypes": [
      "feat",
      "fix",
      "perf",
      "merge"
    ],
    "includeInvalidCommits": true,
    "commitScopes": [],
    "commitIgnoreRegexPattern": "^WIP ",
    "headlines": {
      "feat": "Features",
      "fix": "Bug Fixes",
      "perf": "Performance Improvements",
      "merge": "Merged Branches",
      "breakingChange": "BREAKING CHANGES"
    },

    "commitUrl": "https://github.com/ACCOUNT/REPOSITORY/commit/%commit%",
    "commitRangeUrl": "https://github.com/ACCOUNT/REPOSITORY/compare/%from%...%to%?diff=split",
    "issueUrl": "https://github.com/ACCOUNT/REPOSITORY/issues/%issue%"
  }
}

• convention

  • commitTypes an array of expected commit types
    • show warnings for unexpected types
    • if not set or empty commit type validation is disabled
    • e.g. ["feat", "fix", "doc", "style"]
  • commitScopes an array of expected commit types
    • show warnings for unexpected scopes
    • if not set or empty commit scope validation is disabled
    • e.g. ["ui", "database"]
  • releaseTagGlobPattern glob pattern to filter for release tags
    • release tags must contain semantic version ([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)
    • default *
  • issueRegexPattern regex pattern to find issue IDs
    • e.g. Jira issue pattern [A-Z]{3,}-\\d+

• changelog

  • commitTypes filter commits by type
    • a subset of convention.commitTypes plus
      • merge commits
    • if not set or empty commit type filter is disabled
    • e.g. ["feat", "fix", "merge"]
  • commitScopes filter commits by scopes
    • a subset of convention.commitScopes
    • if not set or empty commit scope filter is disabled
    • e.g. ["ui"]
  • includeInvalidCommits include commits without valid type: default: true
    • if set to false all commits with undefined commitTypes will be removed from changelog
  • commitIgnoreRegexPattern filter commits by commit subject regex
    • default ^WIP
  • headlines a map of headline identifier and actual headline
    • a subset of changelog.commitTypes plus
      • breakingChange Breaking Changes Section
    • e.g. { "feat": "Features", "fix": "Bug Fixes", "breakingChange": "BREAKING CHANGES"}
    • default { "feat": "Features", "fix": "Bug Fixes", "merge": "Merged Branches", "breakingChange": "BREAKING CHANGES"}
  • commitUrl an URL template for generating markdown links to repository commits
    • %commit% commit hash placeholder
    • eg https://github.com/qoomon/git-conventional-commits/commit/%commit%
    • if not set or empty link generation is disabled
  • issueUrl an URL template for generating markdown links to an issue tracker
    • %issue% issue id placeholder
    • eg https://jira.example.org/browse/%issue%
    • if not set or empty link generation is disabled

Automatically Validate Commit Message Convention before Commit

• Setup Commit Message Hook to
  • Navigate to your repository directory cd <repository-path>
  • Create git hook directory mkdir .git-hooks
  • Set update hooksPath git config core.hooksPath .git-hooks
  • Create commit message hook script and make it executable
    • touch .git-hooks/commit-msg && chmod +x .git-hooks/commit-msg
    • Open .git-hooks/commit-msg with your favorite editor and paste following script

      #!/bin/sh
      
      # fix for windows systems
      PATH="/c/Program Files/nodejs:$HOME/AppData/Roaming/npm/:$PATH"
      
      git-conventional-commits commit-msg-hook "$1"
      

  • Add and commit .git-hooks/commit-msg to repository
  • ⚠️ Whenever you clone your repository with git hooks you need to enable git hooks once again
    • git config core.hooksPath .git-hooks

Release Workflow with git-conventional-commits

1. Determine version by git-conventional-commits version
2. Update version in project files
   • Commit version bump git commit -am'build(release): bump project version to <version>'
3. Generate change log by git-conventional-commits changelog --release <version> --file 'CHANGELOG.md'
   • Commit change log git commit -am'doc(release): create <version> change log entry'
4. Tag commit with version git tag -a -m'build(release): <version>' '<version-prefix><version>'
5. Push all changes git push
6. Build and upload artifacts

Build/Release

• npm install
• npm test
• npm login
• npm publish