Write Conventional Commits Message

Instructions

Analyze Context

• Run the following commands in parallel to gather full context:

List staged/unstaged files to confirm current state

git status

Get high-level statistics (files changed, lines added/removed)

git diff --cached --stat

Read the actual staged code changes to draft the message

git diff --cached

Check recent history to match project style and scope

git log --oneline -5

Draft Message

• Type: Select feat , fix , chore , etc. (see Specification below).

• Scope: Identify the affected component (optional).

• Description: Summarize changes in imperative mood (max 72 chars).

• Body/Footer: Include if there are breaking changes (! ) or references.

Output

• Present the commit message in a code block.

<type>[optional scope]: <description>

[optional body]

[optional footer(s)]

The commit contains the following structural elements, to communicate intent to the consumers of your library:

• fix: a commit of the type fix patches a bug in your codebase (this correlates with PATCH in Semantic Versioning).

• feat: a commit of the type feat introduces a new feature to the codebase (this correlates with MINOR in Semantic Versioning).

• BREAKING CHANGE: a commit that has a footer BREAKING CHANGE: , or appends a ! after the type/scope, introduces a breaking API change (correlating with MAJOR in Semantic Versioning). A BREAKING CHANGE can be part of commits of any type.

• types other than fix: and feat: are allowed, for example @commitlint/config-conventional (based on the Angular convention) recommends build: , chore: , ci: , docs: , style: , refactor: , perf: , test: , and others.

• footers other than BREAKING CHANGE: <description> may be provided and follow a convention similar to git trailer format.

Additional types are not mandated by the Conventional Commits specification, and have no implicit effect in Semantic Versioning (unless they include a BREAKING CHANGE). A scope may be provided to a commit’s type, to provide additional contextual information and is contained within parenthesis, e.g., feat(parser): add ability to parse arrays .

feat: allow provided config object to extend other configs

BREAKING CHANGE: extends key in config file is now used for extending other config files

feat!: send an email to the customer when a product is shipped

feat(api)!: send an email to the customer when a product is shipped

chore!: drop support for Node 6

BREAKING CHANGE: use JavaScript features not available in Node 6.

docs: correct spelling of CHANGELOG

feat(lang): add Polish language

fix: prevent racing of requests

Introduce a request id and a reference to latest request. Dismiss incoming responses other than from latest request.

Remove timeouts which were used to mitigate the racing issue but are obsolete now.

Reviewed-by: Z Refs: #123

• Commits MUST be prefixed with a type, which consists of a noun, feat , fix , etc., followed by the OPTIONAL scope, OPTIONAL ! , and REQUIRED terminal colon and space.

• The type feat MUST be used when a commit adds a new feature to your application or library.

• The type fix MUST be used when a commit represents a bug fix for your application.

• A scope MAY be provided after a type. A scope MUST consist of a noun describing a section of the codebase surrounded by parenthesis, e.g., fix(parser):

• A description MUST immediately follow the colon and space after the type/scope prefix. The description is a short summary of the code changes, e.g., fix: array parsing issue when multiple spaces were contained in string.

• A longer commit body MAY be provided after the short description, providing additional contextual information about the code changes. The body MUST begin one blank line after the description.

• A commit body is free-form and MAY consist of any number of newline separated paragraphs.

• One or more footers MAY be provided one blank line after the body. Each footer MUST consist of a word token, followed by either a :<space> or <space># separator, followed by a string value (this is inspired by the git trailer convention).

• A footer’s token MUST use - in place of whitespace characters, e.g., Acked-by (this helps differentiate the footer section from a multi-paragraph body). An exception is made for BREAKING CHANGE , which MAY also be used as a token.

• A footer’s value MAY contain spaces and newlines, and parsing MUST terminate when the next valid footer token/separator pair is observed.

• Breaking changes MUST be indicated in the type/scope prefix of a commit, or as an entry in the footer.

• If included as a footer, a breaking change MUST consist of the uppercase text BREAKING CHANGE, followed by a colon, space, and description, e.g., BREAKING CHANGE: environment variables now take precedence over config files.

• If included in the type/scope prefix, breaking changes MUST be indicated by a ! immediately before the : . If ! is used, BREAKING CHANGE: MAY be omitted from the footer section, and the commit description SHALL be used to describe the breaking change.

• Types other than feat and fix MAY be used in your commit messages, e.g., docs: update ref docs.

• The units of information that make up Conventional Commits MUST NOT be treated as case sensitive by implementors, with the exception of BREAKING CHANGE which MUST be uppercase.

• BREAKING-CHANGE MUST be synonymous with BREAKING CHANGE, when used as a token in a footer.

<why_use_conventional_commits>

• Automatically generating CHANGELOGs.

• Automatically determining a semantic version bump (based on the types of commits landed).

• Communicating the nature of changes to teammates, the public, and other stakeholders.

• Triggering build and publish processes.

• Making it easier for people to contribute to your projects, by allowing them to explore a more structured commit history. </why_use_conventional_commits>

A: We recommend that you proceed as if you’ve already released the product. Typically somebody, even if it’s your fellow software developers, is using your software. They’ll want to know what’s fixed, what breaks etc.

Q: Are the types in the commit title uppercase or lowercase?

A: Any casing may be used, but it’s best to be consistent.

A: Go back and make multiple commits whenever possible. Part of the benefit of Conventional Commits is its ability to drive us to make more organized commits and PRs.

A: Conventional Commits encourages us to make more of certain types of commits such as fixes. Other than that, the flexibility of Conventional Commits allows your team to come up with their own types and change those types over time.

A: fix type commits should be translated to PATCH releases. feat type commits should be translated to MINOR releases. Commits with BREAKING CHANGE in the commits, regardless of type, should be translated to MAJOR releases.

A: Reverting code can be complicated: are you reverting multiple commits? if you revert a feature, should the next release instead be a patch?

Conventional Commits does not make an explicit effort to define revert behavior. Instead we leave it to tooling authors to use the flexibility of types and footers to develop their logic for handling reverts.

One recommendation is to use the revert type, and a footer that references the commit SHAs that are being reverted:

revert: let us never again speak of the noodle incident

Refs: 676104e, a215868