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Thank you for reporting any issues you find. We do our best to test and make commitlint as solid as possible, but any reported issue is a real help.

commitlint issues

Please follow these guidelines when reporting issues:

Provide a title in the format of <Error> when <Task>
Tag your issue with the tag bug
Provide a short summary of what you are trying to do
Provide the log of the encountered error if applicable
Provide the exact version of commitlint. Check npm ls @commitlint/cli when in doubt
Be awesome and consider contributing a pull request

Want to contribute?

You consider contributing changes to commitlint – we dig that! Please consider these guidelines when filing a pull request:

commitlint pull requests

Follow the Coding Rules
Follow the Commit Rules
Make sure you rebased the current master branch when filing the pull request
Squash your commits when filing the pull request
Provide a short title with a maximum of 100 characters
Provide a more detailed description containing _ What you want to achieve _ What you changed _ What you added _ What you removed

Coding Rules

To keep the code base of commitlint neat and tidy the following rules apply to every change

Coding standards

prettier is king
Favor micro library over swiss army knives (rimraf, ncp vs. fs-extra)
Be awesome

Commit Rules

To help everyone with understanding the commit history of commitlint the following commit rules are enforced. To make your life easier commitlint is commitizen-friendly and provides the npm run-script commit.

Commit standards

conventional-changelog
husky commit message hook available
present tense
maximum of 100 characters
message format of $type($scope): $message

Environment setup

This project uses yarn, so be sure that it is available in your shell environment.

After cloning the repo run

yarn install

Testing

From the project root directory, use the following commands to run the test suite

yarn build
yarn test

Documentation updates

Documentation uses vitepress. To run and edit the documentation locally run:

yarn docs-dev

To have a preview of the deployed doc run:

yarn docs-build
yarn docs-serve

For more information refer to vitepress documentation.

Package dependency overview

(Partly outdated)

Publishing a release

npm login
nvm use (if you have nvm installed)

nvm
asdf is supported as well

yarn clean
yarn install
yarn build
yarn test
yarn run publish --otp <one-time password>

If something in between fails (like a new package was added and needs to be published for the first time but you forgot) you can use lerna publish from-package to publish anything that has not been published yet.

Create GitHub release

Copy changelog entry for the new version
Create release for the new tag: https://github.com/conventional-changelog/commitlint/releases
Post in the [commitlint Slack-channel][12]

Publish a `next` release (or i.e. patch release)

npm login
nvm use (if you have nvm installed)

yarn clean
yarn install
yarn build
yarn test
npx lerna publish --conventional-commits --dist-tag [`next` | `next` | `[release-vXX(BRANCH)]`] --otp <one-time password>

If for some reason this stops in between, you can manually publish missing packages like this:

npm publish <package-name> --tag [`latest` | `next` | `[release-vXX(BRANCH)]`] --otp <one-time password>

Depending on the state of the packages you might need to run npm pack in each failed package and then publish it.

Publishing (new) packages for the first time

npm publish [PACKAGE_NAME] --access public

From within the folder first i.e. cd @commitlint/new-packages.

Move `next` to `latest`

npm login

npx lerna exec --no-bail --no-private --no-sort --stream -- '[ -n "$(npm v . dist-tags.next)" ] && npm dist-tag add ${LERNA_PACKAGE_NAME}@$(npm v . dist-tags.next) latest --otp <one-time password>'

Remove next:

npx lerna exec --no-bail --no-private --no-sort --stream -- '[ -n "$(npm v . dist-tags.next)" ] && npm dist-tag rm ${LERNA_PACKAGE_NAME} next --otp <one-time password>'

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