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+++ title = "Conventional commits" date = "2023-04-10T12:47:00+01:00" slug = "conventional-commits" tags = ["prog", "git", "cicd"] +++
I recently came across conventional commits and I find the idea very interesting and practical. The commit message style is similar to my subjective style except it's standardized and most importantly parsable. The end goal is to automatically generate changelogs following keep a changelog.
I found a couple of tools which does this.
commitizen
commitizen is good if you use the default config. However, as soon as you derive from the latter, you'd need to write your own customized parsing config which I found to be somewhat difficult to write considering how sometimes commitizen crashes if your config is invalid.
I like how nicely it generates changelogs for you, I should probably take more time to write a working custom config that suits my needs.
git-cliff
git-cliff looks very interesting as well.
It is similar to commitizen. However the command arguments feel more natural to
me I feel. I quickly tried it out, I remember link_parsers not working but it
might've been a misconfiguration on my end. We'll see.