CommitLint.Net 0.2.0

What is CommitLint.Net?

It is a dotnet tool for validating commit messages according to Conventional Commits specification. It can be used in git hook, for example with Husky.NET. It is also included in xpd project.

It doesn't have a full set of rules yet.

How to use

Install

dotnet new tool-manifest # if this is your first local dotnet tool in this project
dotnet tool install CommitLint.Net

Create config

Create file commit-message-config.json with following content:

{
    "config": {
        "max-subject-length": {
            "enabled": true,
            "value": 90
        },
        "conventional-commit": {
            "enabled": true,
            "types": [ "feat", "fix", "refactor", "build", "chore", "style", "test", "docs", "perf", "revert" ]
        }
    }
}

These are currently supported options.

Configure Husky.NET

Install & configure Husky.NET:

dotnet tool install Husky.Net
dotnet husky install
dotnet husky run --group commit-msg

Then in .husky/task-runner.json add task to run linter:

{
  "$schema": "https://alirezanet.github.io/Husky.Net/schema.json",
  "tasks": [
    {
      "name": "commit-message-linter",
      "group": "commit-msg",
      "command": "dotnet",
      "args": [
        "commit-lint",
        "--commit-file",
        "${args}",
        "--commit-message-config-file",
        "path/to/commit-message-config.json"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Direct usage

If you'd like to use it directly, without husky:

dotnet commit-lint --commit-file "path/to/commit-message.txt" --commit-message-config-file "path/to/commit-message-config.json"