commit-helper 3.3.4

A python program that helps you write commits following commit conventions

Commit Helper

What does it do?

The commit-helper do exactly what it's name suggest: helps you create and maintain your commit policy by tailoring your commit message into a commit convention.

Why should I use this?

Keeping a commit policy may sound like an easy thing to do, but in reality we both know that it isn't.

Sometimes we, the developers, go full-loco while programming and make mistakes when commiting. That's fine, everyone makes mistakes. But, what if those mistakes could be avoided?

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Installation

In order to install one of our older versions, check our previous releases. To install the latest (pip) version, just follow the commands below:

$ pip3 install commit-helper

Usage and configuration

This program has a cli that you can take advantage of. Running commit --help will show you the usage and options for your commit. All of them are optional for the sake of not losing your precious time.

  $ commit -h
  usage: generator.py [-h] [--co-author CO_AUTHOR] [--no-generate NO_FILE]
                    [--convention {angular,changelog,symphony,message}]

  A commit formatter tool to help you follow commit conventions.

  optional arguments:
    -h, --help            show this help message and exit
    -ca, --co-author CO_AUTHOR
                          make your friend an co-author to the commit
    -nf, --no-file
                          disables the creation of a commiter.yml file
    -c, --convention {angular,changelog,symphony,message}
                          Selects a convention to be used for the commit.
                          Required if there is no commiter.yml file.

So, if you want to write a co-authored commit, you should use:

$ commit --co-author "foo bar doritous <[e-mail]>"

Or if you are using this for the first time in your project:

$ commit --convention changelog

To work even more smoothly, have in your working directory a file named commiter.yml. In this file you must pass the commit convention that you want to use, following the example:

convention: angular   # tag(context): commit message

# or

convention: karma   # tag(context): commit message

# or

convention: changelog # TAG: commit message

# or

convention: symphony  # [Tag] commit message

# and if you're feeling adventurous

convention: none      # Commit message

In case that you or your organization does already have a commit convention that is not listed above, you can configure it in the commiter.yml file as following:

convention: custom
# considering a commit message like '{add} (stuff) ~> in file foo.br'
commit_pattern: '{tag} (context) ~> message'
# tag, message and context are reserved words that will be replaced in your commit message
context: true # this is a must have field! If your pattern doesn't have one, assign false to it

Supported conventions available:

• angular
• karma
• changelog
• symphony
• a custom one that you may invent ;)

Troubleshooting

If after you've installed commit-helper the commit or commit-helper commands are not usable at the command line, check if $HOME/.local/bin is on your PATH. If not, add it on your .bashrc file by running:

$ echo "export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" >> .bashrc

Project's maintainers

Name	Username
André de Sousa Costa Filho	@andre-filho

Our collaborators

Name	Username
Arthur José Benedito de Oliveira Assis	@arthur0496
Matheus Richard Torres Gomes de Melo	@MatheusRich