Git commit-msg hook to validate for jira issue or the word merge

commit-msg.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# set this to your active development branch
#main_branch="master"
#current_branch="$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)"

# only check commit messages on main development branch
#[ "$current_branch" != "$main_branch" ] && exit 0

# regex to validate in commit msg
commit_regex='((dev|sre|data|oncall)-[0-9]+|merge)'
error_msg="Aborting commit. Your commit message is missing either a JIRA Issue ('DEV-1111') or 'Merge'"

if ! grep -iqE "$commit_regex" "$1"; then
    echo "$error_msg" >&2
    exit 1
fi

Instructions.md

Instructions

• Copy the file commit-msg to .git/hooks/commit-msg
• Make sure your delete the sample file .git/hooks/commit-msg.sample
• Make commit msg executable. chmod +x .git/hooks/commit-msg
• Edit commit-msg to better fit your development branch, commit regex and error message
• Profit $$

Shell example

curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/EricTendian/1cac4d1a269c3caaae1e6c16a2de89ff/raw/commit-msg.sh > .git/hooks/commit-msg

rm .git/hooks/commit-msg.sample

chmod +x .git/hooks/commit-msg

vim .git/hooks/commit-msg

echo "Profit $$"