gitzy🪄

Interactive conventional commits cli, inspired by git-cz with the ability to leverage commitlint configuration, configuration validation, versatile configuration and more.

Table of Contents

• Usage
• Configuration
• Flags

Usage

Quick start

$ npx gitzy

Getting Started

$ npm install -g gitzy
$ gitzy
$ gitzy -p -a
$ gitzy -m "added cool new feature" -t "feat" -s "amazing"
$ gitzy -lD --no-emoji

Configuration

By default gitzy comes ready to run out of the box but provides various configuration methods and options

You can use a gitzy object in your package.json, or the following files: .gitzyrc, .gitzyrc.json, .gitzyrc.yaml, .gitzyrc.yml, .gitzyrc.js, .gitzyrc.cjs, gitzy.config.js, gitzy.config.cjs, .gitzyrc.mjs, or gitzy.config.mjs.

• all the files can also live under a .config/ directory

Options

• breakingChangeEmoji
• closedIssueEmoji
• issuesHint
• issuesPrefix
• disableEmoji
• details
• headerMaxLength
• headerMinLength
• questions
• scopes
• types
• useCommitlintConfig

breakingChangeEmoji

feat: ✨ dope new feature

BREAKING CHANGE: 💥 breaks stuff

breakingChangeEmoji: "💥"

closedIssueEmoji

fix: 🐛 resolved nasty bug

🏁 Closes: #123

closedIssueEmoji: "🏁"

issuesHint

Allows you to customize the issues prompt hint

issuesHint: #123

issuesPrefix

Allows you to choose the issuesPrefix based on Github supported keywords.

issuesPrefix: closes # must be one of close, closes, closed, fix, fixes, fixed, resolve, resolves, resolved

disableEmoji

Disable all emojis, overrides breakingChangeEmoji, closedIssueEmoji and emoji options

disableEmoji: false

details

Allows you to further configure cli and git message output based on type. Default emojis follow standards set by gitmoji

details:
  chore:
    description: Other changes that don't modify src or test files
    emoji: "🤖"
  ci:
    description: Changes to CI configuration files and scripts
    emoji: "👷"
  docs:
    description: Add or update documentation.
    emoji: "📝"
  feat:
    description: A new feature
    emoji: "✨"
  fix:
    description: Fix a bug.
    emoji: "🐛"
  perf:
    description: Improve performance.
    emoji: "⚡️"
  refactor:
    description: Refactor code.
    emoji: "♻️"
  release:
    description: Deploy stuff.
    emoji: "🚀"
  revert:
    description: Revert changes.
    emoji: "⏪"
  style:
    description: Improve structure / format of the code.
    emoji: "🎨"
  test:
    description: Add or update tests.
    emoji: "✅"

headerMaxLength

headerMaxLength: 64

headerMinLength

headerMinLength: 3

questions

Allows you to toggle questions.

questions:
  - type # Choose the type
  - scope # Choose the scope
  - subject # Add a short description
  - body # Add a longer description
  - breaking # Add a short description
  - issues # Add issues this commit closes, e.g #123

scope question will not be turned if there's no scopes

scopes

Allows you to provide list of scopes to choose from.

scopes: []

Will enable scope question if scopes are provided.

types

Allows you to provide list of types to choose from. Can be further configured through Details.

types:
  - chore
  - docs
  - feat
  - fix
  - refactor
  - test
  - style
  - ci
  - perf
  - revert
  - release

useCommitlintConfig

Will leverage Commitlint's configuration instead for these options:

• types correlates to rules[type-enum][2]
• scopes correlates to rules[scope-enum][2]
• headerMaxLength correlates to rules[header-max-length][2]
• headerMinLength correlates to rules[header-min-length][2]

useCommitlintConfig: false

Flags

flag	alias	description
--breaking	-b	skip "breaking" question and provide your own "breaking" message
--body	-d	skip "body" question and provide your own "body" message
--help	-h	display help for command
--issues	-i	skip "issues" question and provide your own "issue" message
--subject	-m	skip "subject" question and provide your own "subject" message
--passthrough	-p	subsequent command line args passed through to git
--scope	-s	skip "scope" question and provide your own "scope" message
--type	-t	skip "type" question and provide your own "type" message
--dry-run	-D	output the git message but do not commit
--version	-v	output the version number
--commitlint	-l	leverage commitlint's configuration
--skip	-S	skip questions
--no-emoji		disable all emojis
--retry	-r	retries previous commit, skips all prompts