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Conventional Commit Messages
See how a minor change to your commit message style can make a difference.
Tip
Take a look at git-conventional-commits , a CLI util to ensure these conventions, determine version and generate changelogs
Commit Message Formats
Default
<type>(<optional scope>): <description> empty separator line <optional body> empty separator line <optional footer>
Merge Commit
Merge branch '<branch name>'
Follows default git merge message
Revert Commit
Revert "<reverted commit subject line>"
Follows default git revert message
Inital Commit
chore: init
Types
- API or UI relevant changes
feat
Commits, that add or remove a new feature to the API or UIfix
Commits, that fix an API or UI bug of a precededfeat
commit
refactor
Commits, that rewrite/restructure your code, however do not change any API or UI behaviourperf
Commits are specialrefactor
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 testsdocs
Commits, that affect documentation onlybuild
Commits, that affect build components like build tools, dependencies, project version, ci pipelines, ...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 depend on the specific project
- Don't use issue identifiers as scopes
Breaking Changes Indicator
Breaking changes should be indicated by an !
before the :
in the subject line e.g. feat(api)!: remove status endpoint
- Is an optional part of the format
- Breaking changes must be described in the commit footer section
Description
The description
contains a concise description of the change.
- It is a mandatory part of the format
- Use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes"
- Think of
This commit will...
orThis commit should...
- Think of
- 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 CHANGE:
followed by space or two newlines. The rest of the commit message is then used for this.
Versioning
- If your next release contains commit with...
- breaking changes incremented the major version
- API relevant changes (
feat
orfix
) incremented the minor version
- Else increment the patch version
Examples
-
feat: add email notifications on new direct messages
-
feat(shopping cart): add the amazing button
-
feat!: remove ticket list endpoint refers to JIRA-1337 BREAKING CHANGE: ticket endpoints no longer supports list all entities.
-
fix(shopping-cart): prevent order an empty shopping cart
-
fix(api): fix wrong calculation of request body checksum
-
fix: add missing parameter to service call The error occurred due to <reasons>.
-
perf: decrease memory footprint for determine uniqe visitors by using HyperLogLog
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build: update dependencies
-
build(release): bump version to 1.0.0
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refactor: implement fibonacci number calculation as recursion
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style: remove empty line