Commit Check¶

Overview¶

Commit Check supports checking commit messages, branch naming, committer name/email, commit signoff, customizing error messages, suggested commands and more.

It is a powerful, free solution for individuals and teams aiming to standardize commit message formatting and branch naming, including

writing descriptive commit is easy to read
identify branch according to the branch type
triggering the specific types of commit/branch CI build
automatically generate changelogs

If you’re using Bitbucket, it’s an open source alternative to Yet Another Commit Checker.

Configuration¶

Use Custom Configuration¶

Create a config file .commit-check.yml under your repository’s root directory, e.g., .commit-check.yml

Use Default Configuration¶

If you don’t set .commit-check.yml, Commit Check will use the default configuration.
The commit message will follow the rules of conventional commits, branch naming follow Bitbucket’s branching model.

Usage¶

Running as GitHub Action¶

Please see commit-check/commit-check-action

Running as pre-commit hook¶

Tip

Make sure pre-commit is installed.

-   repo: https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check
    rev: the tag or revision
    hooks: # support hooks
    -   id: check-message  # it requires hook prepare-commit-msg
    -   id: check-branch
    -   id: check-author-name
    -   id: check-author-email
    -   id: check-commit-signoff

Running as CLI¶

Global Installation

sudo pip3 install -U commit-check

User Installation

pip install -U commit-check

Install from Git Repo

pip install git+https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check.git@main

Then, run commit-check from the command line. For more information, see the docs.

Running as Git Hooks¶

To configure the hook, create a script file in the .git/hooks/ directory.

#!/bin/sh
commit-check --message --branch --author-name --author-email

Save the script file as pre-push and make it executable:

chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-push

Now, git push will trigger this hook automatically.

Example¶

Check Commit Message Failed

Commit rejected by Commit-Check.

  (c).-.(c)    (c).-.(c)    (c).-.(c)    (c).-.(c)    (c).-.(c)
   / ._. \      / ._. \      / ._. \      / ._. \      / ._. \
 __\( C )/__  __\( H )/__  __\( E )/__  __\( C )/__  __\( K )/__
(_.-/'-'\-._)(_.-/'-'\-._)(_.-/'-'\-._)(_.-/'-'\-._)(_.-/'-'\-._)
   || E ||      || R ||      || R ||      || O ||      || R ||
 _.' '-' '._  _.' '-' '._  _.' '-' '._  _.' '-' '._  _.' '-' '._
(.-./`-´\.-.)(.-./`-´\.-.)(.-./`-´\.-.)(.-./`-´\.-.)(.-./`-´\.-.)
 `-´     `-´  `-´     `-´  `-´     `-´  `-´     `-´  `-´     `-´

Type message check failed => my test commit message
It doesn't match regex: ^(build|chore|ci|docs|feat|fix|perf|refactor|revert|style|test){1}(\([\w\-\.]+\))?(!)?: ([\w ])+([\s\S]*)

The commit message should be structured as follows:

<type>[optional scope]: <description>
[optional body]
[optional footer(s)]

More details please refer to https://www.conventionalcommits.org
Suggest: please check your commit message whether matches above regex

Check Branch Naming Failed

Commit rejected by Commit-Check.

  (c).-.(c)    (c).-.(c)    (c).-.(c)    (c).-.(c)    (c).-.(c)
   / ._. \      / ._. \      / ._. \      / ._. \      / ._. \
 __\( C )/__  __\( H )/__  __\( E )/__  __\( C )/__  __\( K )/__
(_.-/'-'\-._)(_.-/'-'\-._)(_.-/'-'\-._)(_.-/'-'\-._)(_.-/'-'\-._)
   || E ||      || R ||      || R ||      || O ||      || R ||
 _.' '-' '._  _.' '-' '._  _.' '-' '._  _.' '-' '._  _.' '-' '._
(.-./`-´\.-.)(.-./`-´\.-.)(.-./`-´\.-.)(.-./`-´\.-.)(.-./`-´\.-.)
 `-´     `-´  `-´     `-´  `-´     `-´  `-´     `-´  `-´     `-´

Commit rejected.

Type branch check failed => my-test-branch
It doesn't match regex: ^(bugfix|feature|release|hotfix|task)\/.+|(master)|(main)|(HEAD)|(PR-.+)

Branches must begin with these types: bugfix/ feature/ release/ hotfix/ task/
Suggest: run command `git checkout -b type/branch_name`

Badging your repository¶

You can add a badge to your repository to show that you use commit-check!

Markdown

[![commit-check](https://img.shields.io/badge/commit--check-enabled-brightgreen?logo=Git&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check)

reStructuredText

.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/commit--check-enabled-brightgreen?logo=Git&logoColor=white
    :target: https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check
    :alt: commit-check

Versioning¶

Versioning follows Semantic Versioning.

Have question or feedback?¶

Please post to issues for feedback, feature requests, or bug reports.

License¶

This project is released under the MIT License