commitplease

Commitplease

This node.js module takes a string, validates it as a commit message and returns a list of problems.

Installation

npm install commitplease

Usage

var commitplease = require('commitplease');
var errors = commitplease(commit.message);
if (errors.length) {
	postComment('This commit has ' errors.length + ' problems!');
}

API

commitplease(message[, options]), returns Array

• message (String): The commit message to validate. Must use LF (\n) as line breaks.
• options (Object, optional): Use this to override the default settings, see properties and defaults below
• returns Array: Empty for valid messages, one or more items as String for each problem found

Options and their defaults:

// component in subject is required
component: true,
limits: {
	// hard limit of subject
	subject: 50,
	// hard limit of all other lines
	other: 72
}

License

Copyright 2013 Jörn Zaefferer. Released under the terms of the MIT license.

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