Commitizen is a tool designed for teams.
Its main purpose is to define a standard way of committing rules and communicating it (using the cli provided by commitizen).
The reasoning behind it is that it is easier to read, and enforces writing descriptive commits.
Besides that, having a convention on your commits makes it possible to parse them and use them for something else, like generating automatically the version or a changelog.
- Command-line utility to create commits with your rules. Defaults: Conventional commits
- Display information about your commit rules (commands: schema, example, info)
- Bump version automatically using semantic versioning based on the commits. Read More
- Generate a changelog using Keep a changelog (Planned feature)
Python 3.6+
Git 1.8.5.2+
Global installation
sudo pip3 install -U Commitizen
You can add it to your local project using one of these:
pip install -U commitizen
poetry add commitizen --dev
Run in your terminal
cz commit
or the shortcut
cz c
$ cz --help
usage: cz [-h] [--debug] [-n NAME] [--version]
{ls,commit,c,example,info,schema,bump} ...
Commitizen is a cli tool to generate conventional commits.
For more information about the topic go to https://conventionalcommits.org/
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--debug use debug mode
-n NAME, --name NAME use the given commitizen
--version get the version of the installed commitizen
commands:
{ls,commit,c,example,info,schema,bump}
ls show available commitizens
commit (c) create new commit
example show commit example
info show information about the cz
schema show commit schema
bump bump semantic version based on the git log
version get the version of the installed commitizen or the
current project (default: installed commitizen)
check validates that a commit message matches the commitizen schema
init init commitizen configurationWhy are revert and chore valid types in the check pattern of cz conventional_commits but not types we can select?
revert and chore are added to the "pattern" in cz check in order to prevent backward errors, but officially they are not part of conventional commits, we are using the latest types from Angular (they used to but were removed).
However, you can create a customized cz with those extra types. (See Customization
See more discussion in issue #142 and #36
git revert --no-commit <SHA> git commit -m "revert: foo bar"
Feel free to create a PR.
- Clone the repo.
- Add your modifications
- Create a virtualenv
- Run
./scripts/test