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Writing a Proper Commit message

Example

[feature] : Subject of the commit message

Body of the commit message

Footer of the commit message

Rules

Types

  • API relevant changes
    • feat Commits, that adds a new feature
    • fix Commits, that fixes a bug
  • refactor Commits, that rewrite/restructure your code, however does not change any behaviour
    • perf Commits are special refactor commits, that improve performance
  • style Commits, that do not affect the meaning (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)
  • test Commits, that add missing tests or correcting existing tests
  • docs Commits, that affect documentation only
  • build Commits, that affect build components like build tool, ci pipeline, dependencies, project version, ...
  • ops Commits, that affect operational components like infrastructure, deployment, backup, recovery, ...
  • chore Miscellaneous commits e.g. modifying .gitignore

Scopes

The scope provides additional contextual information.

  • Is an optional part of the format
  • Allowed Scopes depends on the specific project
  • Don't use issue identifiers as scopes

Subject

The subject contains a succinct description of the change.

  • Is a mandatory part of the format
  • Use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes"
    • Think of This commit will <subject>
  • Don't capitalize the first letter
  • No dot (.) at the end

Body

The body should include the motivation for the change and contrast this with previous behavior.

  • Is an optional part of the format
  • Use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes"
  • This is the place to mention issue identifiers and their relations

Footer

The footer should contain any information about Breaking Changes and is also the place to reference Issues that this commit refers to.

  • Is an optional part of the format
  • optionally reference an issue by its id.
  • Breaking Changes should start with the word BREAKING CHANGES: followed by space or two newlines. The rest of the commit message is then used for this.

Examples

  • feat(shopping cart): add the amazing button

  • feat: remove ticket list endpoint

refers to JIRA-1337
BREAKING CHANGES: ticket endpoints no longer supports list all entities.

  • fix: add missing parameter to service call

The error occurred because of <reasons>.

  • build(release): bump version to 1.0.0

  • build: update dependencies

  • refactor: implement calculation method as recursion

  • style: remove empty line