Commitlint GitHub Type

Check if your commit messages start with a valid GitHub issue reference and a type.

Accepts commit messages like:

#1/feat: implemented a new message handler
user/repo#729/fix: removed erroneous handling of a key

Getting Started

If you want to lint your commits with github-type, follow along:

1. Install Commitlint, Husky and the github-type dependencies

   npm i @commitlint/cli husky @dwmt/commitlint-plugin-github-type @dwmt/commitlint-config-github-type -D
   

2. Configure commitlint

   // commitlint.config.js
   module.exports = {
     plugins: ['@dwmt/commitlint-plugin-github-type'],
     extends: ['@dwmt/commitlint-config-github-type'],
   }

3. Setup Husky. To lint commits before they are created you can use the commit-msg hook

   mkdir .husky
   npx husky add .husky/commit-msg "npx --no-install commitlint --edit $1"
   

You can find detailed instructions regarding the local setup of Commitlint and Husky at Commitlint Local Setup.

Configurable Rules

github-type offers the following configurable rules. By customizing these rules, you can define which messages should be accepted and rejected.

github-type-type-enum

An enumeration of accepted types. If the type within the message is not included, then the message is rejected. By default, the value of this setting is undefined, which means that every type is accepted.

If you want to accept feat and fix only:

// commitlint.config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: ['@dwmt/commitlint-plugin-github-type'],
  extends: ['@dwmt/commitlint-config-github-type'],
  rules: {
     // 2 sets the level of this rule to error.
     // always means that this rule should be applied as is
     // (the other value is "never", which inverts the rule) 
     'github-type-type-enum': [2, 'always', ['feat', 'fix']] 
  }
}

Packages

This is a monorepo containing the following packages:

• commitlint-common-github-type
  • Definitions shared between the packages of the monorepo. For example rule names and rule default values.
• commitlint-config-github-type
  • Default configuration for all the rules supported by github-type.
• commitlint-plugin-github-type
  • The actual rule implementations.