Semantic Commit Messages

semantic-commit-messages.md

Semantic Commit Messages

See how a minor change to your commit message style can make you a better programmer.

Format: <type>(<scope>): <subject>

<scope> is optional

Example

feat 🚀: add hat wobble
^--^  ^------------^
|     |
|     +-> Summary in present tense.
|
+-------> Type: upgrade, chore, docs, feat, fix, refactor, style, or test.

More Examples:

• upgrade 🆙: (updgrade dependencies)
• feat 🚀: (new feature for the user, not a new feature for build script)
• fix 🔨: (bug fix for the user, not a fix to a build script)
• docs 📖: (changes to the documentation)
• style ️💅: (formatting, missing semi colons, etc; no production code change)
• refactor ✨: (refactoring production code, eg. renaming a variable)
• test ✅: (adding missing tests, refactoring tests; no production code change)
• chore 💪: (updating grunt tasks etc; no production code change)

Reference(s):

• https://seesparkbox.com/foundry/semantic_commit_messages
• http://karma-runner.github.io/1.0/dev/git-commit-msg.html