Git-cz

git-cz is short for git-commitizen

A Conventional commit cli.

git-cz gives tools to work with Conventional Commits.

The tool is still in early development. It provides already the following commands:

• git-cz changelog: Create a changelog file.
• git-cz check: Checks if a range of commits is following the convention.
• git-cz commit: Helps to make conventional commits.
• git-cz version: Finds out the current or next version.

Installation

build from sourceo

cargo install --git https://github.com/ttys3/git-cz.git

download pre-build binary

download and put git-cz to your PATH env

Git alias

recommand Git alias:

# use "git cc" for quick commit
git config --global alias.cc 'cz commit'

git config --global alias.ck 'cz check'

git config --global alias.cl 'cz changelog'

git config --global alias.cv 'cz version'

Docker usage

# build the git-cz image
docker build -t git-cz .
# run it on any codebase
docker run -v "$PWD:/tmp" --workdir /tmp --rm git-cz

Use it in .gitlab-ci.yml

If you've created an image and pushed it into your private registry

git-cz:check:
  stage: test
  image:
    name: 80x86/git-cz:latest
  script:
    - check

Tools

Changelog

A changelog can be generated using the conventional commits. It is inspired by conventional changelog. Configuration follows the conventional-changelog-config-spec

git-cz changelog > CHANGELOG.md

Check

Check a range of revisions for compliance.

It returns a non zero exit code if some commits are not conventional. This is useful in a pre-push hook.

git-cz check $remote_sha..$local_sha

Commit

Helps to make conventional commits. A scope, description, body, breaking change and issues will be prompted.

# commit a new feature and then run git commit with the interactive patch switch
git-cz commit --feat -- --patch

Version

When no options are given it will return the current version. When --bump is provided, the next version will be printed out. Conventional commits are used to calculate the next major, minor or patch. If needed one can provide --major, --minor or --patch to overrule the convention.

git-cz version --bump

It is useful to use it with release tools, such as cargo-release:

cargo release $(git-cz version --bump)

TODO

• [x] automatic notes for breaking changes
• [x] custom template folder
• [x] use a .versionrc file
• [x] limit to a range of versions
• [x] sort sections in changelog
• [x] issue references
• [ ] better documentation
• [ ] better error handling

Thanks

• fuzzy finder powered by Skim

• original code by convco

Ref

https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/

https://github.com/commitizen/conventional-commit-types/blob/master/index.json

Related Works

https://github.com/commitizen/cz-cli

https://github.com/goreleaser/chglog

https://github.com/ahmadawais/Emoji-Log