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Malicious Go “crypto” Module Steals Passwords and Deploys Rekoobe Backdoor
An impersonated golang.org/x/crypto clone exfiltrates passwords, executes a remote shell stager, and delivers a Rekoobe backdoor on Linux.
commitlint
Advanced tools
Alias of @commitlint/cli
cz-customizable is a package that provides a customizable commitizen adapter. It helps in creating consistent commit messages by providing a guided commit message prompt. Unlike commitlint, which validates commit messages after they are written, cz-customizable helps in writing them correctly in the first place.
commitizen is a tool that helps you write commit messages following the conventional commit format. It provides an interactive CLI to guide you through the commit message creation process. While commitlint focuses on validating commit messages, commitizen focuses on creating them.
semantic-release automates the versioning and package publishing process based on the commit messages. It uses commit message conventions to determine the type of release (major, minor, patch). While commitlint ensures commit message consistency, semantic-release uses those messages to automate releases.
FAQs
Lint your commit messages
The npm package commitlint receives a total of 404,015 weekly downloads. As such, commitlint popularity was classified as popular.
We found that commitlint demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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