hooks

commit-msg

#!/usr/bin/env bash

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

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

# regex to validate in commit msg
commit_regex='((feat|fix|doc|style|refactor|perf|test|chore)\(.+\)\:|merge)'
error_msg="Aborting commit. Please follow appropriate commit message format:
<type>(<scope>): <message>

example: 
fix(response): check data type before performing arithmatic
or Merge pull request from #234

Allowed types:
feat: A new feature
fix: A bug fix
doc: Documentation only changes
style: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)
refactor: A code change that neither fixes a bug or adds a feature
perf: A code change that improves performance
test: Adding missing tests
chore: Changes to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries such as documentation generation

Commits starting with 'Merged' are passed through
"

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