commitlint [bot]

Built with probot framework

A GitHub App that runs commitlint against all commits of new or edited pull requests and sets an appropriate status check.

Usage

1. Browse to GitHub Apps - commitlint
2. Accept the permissions
3. Allow access to repositories

On the next pull request, a status check from commitlint will appear:

Problem details will be reported as a comment like this:

For best results, enable branch protection (in the repository's settings) and require the commitlint status check to pass before merging:

What is missing?

We don't currently support custom configuration (i.e. .commitlint.yml or .commitlint.json), but we will

Development

1. Setup the repo:

git clone https://github.com/z0al/commitlint-bot.git
cd commitlint-bot
npm install

2. Create your own GitHub app
3. Store the private key as private-key.pem somewhere safe, and point to its location in .env
4. Start the app with APP_ID=1234 npm start where 1234 is your GitHub app's ID
5. Update your GitHub app's Webhook URL to your localtunnel.me URL

Deployment

See docs/deploy.md for more info.

Credits

Robot designed by Freepik.

Inspired by the awesome work of Tom Vincent in their validate-commit-msg-bot package.

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License

MIT Ahmed T. Ali