perfect-vim-git-commit-setup.md

Perfect vim/git setup for clean commit messages

Install vim-git plugin (dopuskh3/vim-git add fancy color for commit message title) but the official plugin is fine too.

If you use Vundle:

Bundle "dopuskh3/vim-git"

Install git-commit-validator.py

From here:

https://gist.github.com/dopuskh3/bcf437f0f0c1293c9b2d

Use the following setup to validate commit message with the following constraints:

• Title must starts with an infinitive word
• No empty description
• Line length to 50 for commit title
• Line length to 72 for commit description
• No more than one empty line between commit title and description
• ~ other rules may come ~

Activate git-commit-validator while editing commit messages

autocmd Filetype gitcommit set makeprg=python\ /path/to/git-validate-commit.py\ %
autocmd Filetype gitcommit set efm=%l:%c:%m
autocmd BufWritePost COMMIT_EDITMSG make

An example of the perfect commit message will be great !

Here are some additional interesting list of topics to care about: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GitCommitMessages#Information_in_commit_messages