Conventionalish

Patch Commitizen's Conventional Commits implementation with additional prefixes.

By default, Commitizen will use its Conventional Commits implementation, so when you run cz commit, you will get a choice of

• fix:
• feat:
• docs:
• style:
• refactor:
• perf:
• test:
• build:
• ci:

Commitizen has a robust system for building your own commit patterns, and it's great if you want to start from scratch. But if you want to make a small change to the defaults and keep the nice prompts, commit-message linting, and changelog-building provided by Commitizen, you will have to create or update six patterns or regexps. This script inherits from ConventionalCommitsCz and patches in new choices and associated properties. FWIW, despite the ish in the name conventionalish, these changes will still meet the Conventional Commits standard (at least as much as Commitizen does) as long as the feat: and fix: prefixes remain.

Should you want to accomplish this by hand:

1. inherit from ConventionalCommitsCz
2. overload .questions() # for commit prompts
3. overload .schema_pattern() # for commit-message linting

Will your addition affect versioning?

4. overload .bump_pattern # for commitizen bump
5. overload .bump_map # for commitizen bump
6. overload .commit_parser # for commitizen changelog
7. overload .change_type_map # for commitizen changelog
8. overload .changelog_pattern # for commitizen changelog

Usage

To make these changes using a script:

1. clone this project into your project root
2. edit the QUESTIONS value at the top of questions.py. The default value will give near-identical behavior to the Commitizen default.
3. install conventionalish in your project venv (poetry add .\conventionalish; pip install .\conventionalish; ...) or upload to PyPi with a new name.
4. run with cz -n cz_conventionalish or add the following to pyproject.toml

[tool.commitizen]
name = "cz_conventionalish"

Troubleshooting, Q&A

I updated the file, but Commitizen doesn't recognize the changes.

This is an installed package, depending how you installed it, you may need to:

1. delete any commitizenish/build or commitizenish/egg-info directories
2. uninstall
3. reinstall

How can I change the project name (conventionalish)?

1. change the name of this folder after you clone it
2. update the line name="conventionalish" in conventionalish/pyproject.toml to name="new_folder_name"

How can I change the commit-rule name (cz_conventionalish)?

1. change the filename conventionalish/cz_conventionalish.py to conventionalish/cz_new_name.py
2. change the line { include = "cz_conventionalish.py" } in conventionalish/pyproject.toml to { include = "cz_new_name.py" }

Author

Shay Hill (shay_public@hotmail.com)