A pre-commit hook to check commit messages for Conventional Commits formatting.

Works with Python >= 3.8.

Make sure pre-commit is installed.

Create a blank configuration file at the root of your repo, if needed:

touch .pre-commit-config.yaml

Add/update default_install_hook_types and add a new repo entry in your configuration file:

default_install_hook_types:
  - pre-commit
  - commit-msg

repos:
  # - repo: ...

  - repo: https://github.com/compilerla/conventional-pre-commit
    rev: <git sha or tag>
    hooks:
      - id: conventional-pre-commit
        stages: [commit-msg]
        args: []

Install the pre-commit script:

pre-commit install --install-hooks

Make a (normal) commit ❌:

$ git commit -m "add a new feature"

[INFO] Initializing environment for ....
Conventional Commit......................................................Failed
- hook id: conventional-pre-commit
- duration: 0.07s
- exit code: 1

[Bad commit message] >> add a new feature
Your commit message does not follow Conventional Commits formatting
https://www.conventionalcommits.org/

And with the --verbose arg:

$ git commit -m "add a new feature"

[INFO] Initializing environment for ....
Conventional Commit......................................................Failed
- hook id: conventional-pre-commit
- duration: 0.07s
- exit code: 1

[Bad commit message] >> add a new feature
Your commit message does not follow Conventional Commits formatting
https://www.conventionalcommits.org/

Conventional Commit messages follow a pattern like:

    type(scope): subject

    extended body

Please correct the following errors:

  - Expected value for type from: build, chore, ci, docs, feat, fix, perf, refactor, revert, style, test

Run:

    git commit --edit --file=.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG

to edit the commit message and retry the commit.

Make a (conventional) commit ✔️:

$ git commit -m "feat: add a new feature"

[INFO] Initializing environment for ....
Conventional Commit......................................................Passed
- hook id: conventional-pre-commit
- duration: 0.05s

conventional-pre-commit can also be installed and used from the command line:

pip install conventional-pre-commit

Then run the command line script:

conventional-pre-commit [types] input

• [types] is an optional list of Conventional Commit types to allow (e.g. feat fix chore)

• input is a file containing the commit message to check:

conventional-pre-commit feat fix chore ci test .git/COMMIT_MSG

Or from a Python program:

from conventional_pre_commit.format import is_conventional

# prints True
print(is_conventional("feat: this is a conventional commit"))

# prints False
print(is_conventional("nope: this is not a conventional commit"))

# prints True
print(is_conventional("custom: this is a conventional commit", types=["custom"]))

conventional-pre-commit supports a number of arguments to configure behavior:

$ conventional-pre-commit -h
usage: conventional-pre-commit [-h] [--no-color] [--force-scope] [--scopes SCOPES] [--strict] [--verbose] [types ...] input

Check a git commit message for Conventional Commits formatting.

positional arguments:
  types            Optional list of types to support
  input            A file containing a git commit message

options:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --no-color       Disable color in output.
  --force-scope    Force commit to have scope defined.
  --scopes SCOPES  List of scopes to support. Scopes should be separated by commas with no spaces (e.g. api,client).
  --strict         Force commit to strictly follow Conventional Commits formatting. Disallows fixup! and merge commits.
  --verbose        Print more verbose error output.

Supply arguments on the command-line, or via the pre-commit hooks.args property:

repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/compilerla/conventional-pre-commit
    rev: <git sha or tag>
    hooks:
      - id: conventional-pre-commit
        stages: [commit-msg]
        args: [--strict, --force-scope, feat, fix, chore, test, custom]

NOTE: when using as a pre-commit hook, input is supplied automatically (with the current commit's message).

conventional-pre-commit comes with a VS Code devcontainer configuration to provide a consistent development environment.

With the Remote - Containers extension enabled, open the folder containing this repository inside Visual Studio Code.

You should receive a prompt in the Visual Studio Code window; click Reopen in Container to run the development environment inside the devcontainer.

If you do not receive a prompt, or when you feel like starting from a fresh environment:

1. Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+P to bring up the command palette in Visual Studio Code
2. Type Remote-Containers to filter the commands
3. Select Rebuild and Reopen in Container to completely rebuild the devcontainer
4. Select Reopen in Container to reopen the most recent devcontainer build

Versioning generally follows Semantic Versioning.

Releases to PyPI and GitHub are triggered by pushing a tag.

1. Ensure all changes for the release are present in the main branch
2. Tag with the new version: git tag vX.Y.Z for regular release, git tag vX.Y.Z-preN for pre-release
3. Push the new version tag: git push origin vX.Y.Z

Apache 2.0

Inspired by matthorgan's pre-commit-conventional-commits.