commit_message_validation.yml

name: Release

on: [push]

jobs:
  commit_message_validation:
    name: validate git commit messages
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          ref: '${{ github.event.pull_request.base.ref }}'

      - name: Execute message validation
        run: |
          # Checkout branch
          git checkout -q ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}
          # Set variables
          BASE_BRANCH=${{ github.event.pull_request.base.ref }}
          msg_regex='MAT-[0-9]+\s.*'
          # This list permits some commits
          commit_static_permit_list="(^Merge pull request \#)|(^Merge branch)|(^Revert \")"
          # Initialize invalidCommit as false, will be set to true by any invalid commits
          invalidCommit=false
          # Find hash of commit most common ancestor, e.g. where branch began
          BRANCH_MERGE_BASE=$(git merge-base ${BASE_BRANCH} ${CURRENT_BRANCH})
          # Find all commits since common ancestor
          BRANCH_COMMITS=$(git rev-list ${BRANCH_MERGE_BASE}..HEAD)
          exit 0