Motivation of this blog is to curate all information at one place and to make more people aware about standards followed by industry.
Let's get started.....
A typical git commit message will look like
<type>(<scope>): <subject>
"type" must be one of the following mentioned below!
-
build: Build related changes (eg: npm related/ adding external dependencies) -
chore: A code change that external user won't see (eg: change to .gitignore file or .prettierrc file) -
feat: A new feature -
fix: A bug fix -
docs: Documentation related changes -
refactor: A code that neither fix bug nor adds a feature. (eg: You can use this when there is semantic changes like renaming a variable/ function name) -
perf: A code that improves performance -
style: A code that is related to styling -
test: Adding new test or making changes to existing test
"scope" is optional
- Scope must be noun and it represents the section of the section of the codebase
- Refer this link for example related to scope
"subject"
- use imperative, present tense (eg: use "add" instead of "added" or "adds")
- don't use dot(.) at end
- don't capitalize first letter
Refer this link for more practical examples of commit messages
Oldest comments (54)
Cool! I use this one for a few of my projects, I also wrote a tool that simplifies it called glitter, it allows you to scaffold a commit message very simply, here is a link: github.com/Milo123459/glitter - thanks, and this is quite a helpful post for a few of my friends getting into git and version management!
Glitter is awesome.. Good efforts
Also, I am glad that it will help your friends:)
Haha, thank you!
What can give me your glitter in compare with commitizen which I am using right now?
As far as I see, there isn't much of a difference. I'm working on interactivity for it (and that is no easy feat!) but yea, not much to change. I think the only big difference is the custom sub-command / scripts feature.
Oh, the type of message is customisabe. For example,
$1: $2: $3+
If you give the arguments:
hello world how are you
It'd be:
hello: world: how are you
Etc, you can change it to however you like, I don't think CZ can do that.
Yes I am using Commitizen for creating of this type git messages. :)
It gets even better when you combine it with semantic-release!
is this a real used "convention" in general or just another new thing?
I had been using this style at my job before we moved to BitBucket. We're using
$JIRA-ID $JIRA-TITLEnow. And I've seen many public GitHub repos following this (feat(scope): message) convention.It looks pretty cool and I see how this may come in handy.
One cool way to commit is to use emojis. I used emojis as my own types of commits. Check this out.
gist.github.com/minhnguyen0712/178...
I would add this article to the list.
chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/
I found it very clear about how to write a good commit message. In this commit format, the rules described could be applied to the "subject".
What's the benefit?
I mean I can see the immediate benefit - but if I was trying to figure out why a change was made I would probably need more than perf or fix; the link back to the original ticket would be more useful.
Yeah.... I didn't mention this practical use case in my article.
People can actually link their JIRA Ticket and that would be more useful.
Rightly said!!
I'm following the same guidelines but read from this page karma-runner.github.io/5.2/dev/git...
This link should also be helpful: conventionalcommits.org
This post is a good intro to conventional commits, but I guess I don't agree that this is a "standard" -- it's popular, but I'd say less than 20% of git projects overall use conventional commits.
Just remember to look at what the typical commit looks like in a project before committing and try to follow suit. For smaller fun projects you might run into gitmoji, for corporate projects a ticket Id + summary style is common, etc.