PHP Commitizen

Commitizen is a tool built for create good commits for a clean and readable git history.
This tool follow the Conventional Commit specs and some best practices described in this slides

Installation and usage

You can install it easily with composer
$ php composer.phar require --dev damianopetrungaro/php-commitizen
Usage is simple too
$ php vendor/bin/php-commitizen commit
You can also

• pass a flag for add all the file to the stage: -a
• specify a custom configuration file adding the file path as argument

You can ask for more information using: $ php vendor/bin/php-commitizen commit --help

Configuration file

The configuration file must return an array (or partial override)

<?php

return [
    'type' => [
        'lengthMin' => 1, // Min length of the type
        'lengthMax' => 5, // Max length of the type
        'acceptExtra' => false, // Allow adding types not listed in 'values' key
        'values' => ['feat', 'fix'], // All the values usable as type
    ],
    'scope' => [
        'lengthMin' => 0, // Min length of the scope
        'lengthMax' => 10, // Max length of the scope
        'acceptExtra' => true, // Allow adding scopes not listed in 'values' key
        'values' => [], // All the values usable as scope
    ],
    'description' => [
        'lengthMin' => 1, // Min length of the description
        'lengthMax' => 44, // Max length of the description
    ],
    'subject' => [
        'lengthMin' => 1, // Min length of the subject
        'lengthMax' => 50, // Max length of the subject
    ],
    'body' => [
        'wrap' => 72, // Wrap the body at 72 characters
    ],
    'footer' => [
        'wrap' => 72, Wrap the footer at 72 characters
    ],
];