Git directory template which includes commit style validator, preventing commits and pushing directly to master without a pull request that we are using at Epower.ng.
Git Template is a replacement for the default directory that gets copied each time you create or clone a git repository.
Windows users should use Git Bash terminal for consistency.
To use this, first run this command to clone this repo to your home directory:
git clone https://github.com/epowerng/git-template ~/.git-template
# Or if you prefer using SSH protocol:
git clone git@github.com:epowerng/git-template.git ~/.git-templateSet the newly cloned repo as your git template directory. This will tell git to populate new repositories created with either git clone or git init with the content of this directory.
git config --global init.templatedir '~/.git-template'A commit message consists of a header, body and footer. The header has a type, scope and subject:
<type>(<scope>): <subject>
<BLANK LINE>
<body>
<BLANK LINE>
<footer>
The header is mandatory but the scope of the header is optional which means type and subject are required.
Must be one of the following:
build: Changes that affect the build system or external dependencies or version changes (example scopes: gulp, broccoli, npm)ci: Changes to our CI configuration files and scripts (example scopes: Circle, BrowserStack, SauceLabs)docs: Documentation only changesfeat: A new featurefix: A bug fixperf: A code change that improves performancerefactor: A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature; refactoring production codestyle: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, removing extra semi-colons, etc)test: Adding missing tests or correcting existing testschore: updating build tasks, package manager configs, etc; no production code changerevert: commit that reverts a previous commit, read more here
The scope could be anything specifying place of the commit change e.g a file name, function name, class name, component name etc.
The subject contains succinct description of the change:
- use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes"
- don't capitalize first letter
- no dot (.) at the end
So the subject should be written as if you are completing the below sentence:
If this commit were applied, it would...
e.g add a name field to the checkout form will now read as If this commit were applied, it would add a name field to the checkout form.
Nice and clear!
Just as in the subject, use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes". The body should include the motivation for the change and contrast this with previous behavior.
The footer should contain any information about Breaking Changes and is also the place to reference GitHub issues that this commit Closes.
Breaking Changes should start with the word BREAKING CHANGE: with a space or two newlines. The rest of the commit message is then used for this.
If the commit reverts a previous commit, it should begin with revert: , followed by the header of the reverted commit. In the body it should say: This reverts commit <hash>., where the hash is the SHA of the commit being reverted.
Appears under "Features" header, Post.js files:
feat(components/Post.js): add 'comments' option
Appears under "Bug Fixes" header, App subheader, with a link to issue #28:
fix(components/App.js): handle events on blur
close #28
Appears under "Performance Improvements" header, and under "Breaking Changes" with the breaking change explanation:
perf(components/StarRating.js): improve performance by removing the 'finalValue' option
BREAKING CHANGE: The 'finalValue' option has been removed.
The following commit and commit 667ecc1 do not appear in the changelog if they are under the same release. If not, the revert commit appears under the "Reverts" header.
revert: feat(components/Post.js): add 'comments' option
This reverts commit 667ecc1654a317a13331b17617d973392f415f02.