core-validate-commit

Validate the commit message for a particular commit in node core

Install

$ npm install [-g] core-validate-commit

Usage

# for a single commit
$ core-validate-commit <sha>

# validate since <sha>
$ git rev-list <sha>..HEAD | xargs core-validate-commit

# list all rules
$ core-validate-commit --list
    fixes-url enforce format of Fixes URLs
  line-length enforce max length of lines in commit body
 metadata-end enforce that metadata is at the end of commit messages
       pr-url enforce PR-URL
    reviewers enforce having reviewers
    subsystem enforce subsystem validity
 title-length enforce max length of commit title

Git hook installation

• install node and core-validate-commits as above
• install this hook in your clone of node (here ~/src/node):

ln -s commit-msg.sh   ~/src/node/.git/hooks/commit-msg

• Alternatively, you may be able to pull from the npm-installed package:

ln  -s /usr/local/lib/node_modules/core-validate-commit/commit-msg.sh \
          ~/src/node/.git/hooks/commit-msg

• make sure ~/src/node/.git/hooks/commit-msg is executable.

Test

$ npm test

Author

Evan Lucas

License

MIT (See LICENSE for more info)