Git Style Guide
Commit Messages
Message Structure
A commit messages consists of three distinct parts separated by a blank line: the title, an optional body and an optional footer. The layout looks like this:
type: Subjectbodyfooter
The title consists of the type of the message and subject.
The Type
The type is contained within the title and can be one of these types:
- feat: A new feature
- fix: A bug fix
- docs: Changes to documentation
- style: Formatting, missing semi colons, etc; no code change
- refactor: Refactoring production code
- test: Adding tests, refactoring test; no production code change
- chore: Updating build tasks, package manager configs, etc; no production code change
The Subject
Subjects should be no greater than 50 characters, should begin with a capital letter and do not end with a period.
Use an imperative tone to describe what a commit does, rather than what it did. For example, use change; not changed or changes.
The Body
Not all commits are complex enough to warrant a body, therefore it is optional and only used when a commit requires a bit of explanation and context. Use the body to explain the what and why of a commit, not the how.
When writing a body, the blank line between the title and the body is required and you should limit the length of each line to no more than 72 characters.
Example Commit Message
feat: Summarize changes in around 50 characters or lessMore detailed explanatory text, if necessary. Wrap it to about 72characters or so. In some contexts, the first line is treated as thesubject of the commit and the rest of the text as the body. Theblank line separating the summary from the body is critical (unlessyou omit the body entirely); various tools like `log`, `shortlog`and `rebase` can get confused if you run the two together.Explain the problem that this commit is solving. Focus on why youare making this change as opposed to how (the code explains that).Are there side effects or other unintuitive consequences of thischange? Here's the place to explain them.Further paragraphs come after blank lines.- Bullet points are okay, too- Typically a hyphen or asterisk is used for the bullet, precededby a single space, with blank lines in between, but conventionsvary hereIf you use an issue tracker, put references to them at the bottom,like this:Resolves: #123See also: #456, #789
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