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* Provide more information when browsing the history
* Format of the commit message
* Subject line
* Allowed <type>
* Allowed <scope>
* Message body
* Message footer
* Breaking changes
* Referencing issues
* Examples
Goals
-----
* allow generating CHANGELOG.md by script
* allow ignoring commits by git bisect (not important commits like formatting)
* provide better information when browsing the history
Generating CHANGELOG.md
-----------------------
We use these three sections in changelog: new features, bug fixes, breaking changes.
This list could be generated by script when doing a release. Along with links to related commits.
Of course you can edit this change log before actual release, but it could generate the skeleton.
List of all subjects (first lines in commit message) since last release:
`git log <last tag> HEAD --pretty=format:%s`
New features in this release
```shell
git log <last release> HEAD --grep feature
```
### Recognizing unimportant commits
These are formatting changes (adding/removing spaces/empty lines, indentation), missing semi colons, comments. So when you are looking for some change, you can ignore these commits - no logic change inside this commit.
### Provide more information when browsing the history
This would add kinda “context” information.
Look at these messages (taken from last few angular’s commits):
* Fix small typo in docs widget (tutorial instructions)
* Fix test for scenario.Application - should remove old iframe
* docs - various doc fixes
* docs - stripping extra new lines
* Replaced double line break with single when text is fetched from Google
* Added support for properties in documentation
All of these messages try to specify where is the change. But they don’t share any convention...
Look at these messages:
* fix comment stripping
* fixing broken links
* Bit of refactoring
* Check whether links do exist and throw exception
* Fix sitemap include (to work on case sensitive linux)
Are you able to guess what’s inside ? These messages miss place specification...
So maybe something like parts of the code: docs, docs-parser, compiler, scenario-runner, …
I know, you can find this information by checking which files had been changed, but that’s slow. And when looking in git history I can see all of us tries to specify the place, only missing the convention.
---
Format of the commit message
----------------------------
```
<type>(<scope>): <subject>
<BLANK LINE>
<body>
<BLANK LINE>
<footer>
```
Any line of the commit message cannot be longer 100 characters! This allows the message to be easier to read on github as well as in various git tools.
### Subject line
Subject line contains succinct description of the change.
#### Allowed <type>
* feat (feature)
* fix (bug fix)
* docs (documentation)
* style (formatting, missing semi colons, …)
* refactor
* test (when adding missing tests)
* chore (maintain)
Allowed <scope>
Scope could be anything specifying place of the commit change. For example $location, $browser, $compile, $rootScope, ngHref, ngClick, ngView, etc...
#### <subject> text
* use imperative, present tense: “change” not “changed” nor “changes”
* don't capitalize first letter
* no dot (.) at the end
### Message body
* just as in <subject> use imperative, present tense: “change” not “changed” nor “changes”
* includes motivation for the change and contrasts with previous behavior