Commit message cheatsheet

Published on: July 14, 2020

I dig the Conventional Commits specification and the Angular convention for git commit messages, but do not incorporate these guidlines as often as I would like within my own projects and defer to less informative messages. To encourage myself to employ this convention more frequently I created a small script that prints a cheatsheet to terminal, so I can quickly reference notes highlighting the specification. Ultimately, I hope to maintain more meaningful git logs with my projects going forward.

Listed below is an example execution of ccc (Conventional Commit Cheatsheet).

➜ ccc

Conventional Commit Cheatsheet

STRUCTURE
  <type>[optional scope]: <description>

  [optional body]

  [optional footer(s)]

TYPES
  build, chore, ci, docs, feat, fix, perf, refactor, style, test

EXAMPLES
  - Commit message with no body
    docs: add install instructions to README

  - Commit message with scope
    feat(search): add filter capability

  - Commit message with both '!' and breaking change footer
    refactor!: drop support for Node 11 and lower

    BREAKING CHANGE: using features introduced in Node 12

You can find ccc at: https://github.com/mattkubej/ccc