Commitlint – enforcing commit message standards

Commitlint is a powerful, configurable tool designed to enforce commit message conventions, ensuring consistency and clarity across a project’s commit history. It plays a crucial role in maintaining a clean, readable, and meaningful commit log, particularly when used in conjunction with conventions such as the Conventional Commits specification. This section provides a comprehensive guide on how to install, configure, and use commitlint to check commit messages locally, fostering a disciplined approach to version control and collaboration.

Installation

Commitlint is typically installed via npm, the package manager for Node.js. To get started, you’ll need to have Node.js and npm installed on your development machine. Once set up, you can install commitlint and its conventional config package by running the following commands in your project’s root directory:

npm install --save-dev @commitlint/{cli,config...