Intellij IDEA - for git commit message to start with some keyword

Maayan Hope 0
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Can I force a git commit message to start with some text

something like:

feature: add something to UI

or

bug: fix login page error

The commit message must start with "feature:" in the above case or with "bug:" as the second example shows

if the message does not start with "feature:" or "bug:" I would like to reject the commit

Thanks

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1 Answers

Here is how you can do it

  1. Go to your home directory and create a folder named hooks. And create hook files.

    mkdir ~/hooks
cd ~/hooks

touch pre-commit
chmod +x pre-commit

touch commit-msg
chmod +x commit-msg

  2. Our first argument $1 gives us the commit-msg file. We can read the commit message with the following command:

    cat "$1"

  3. Create this script file (Here REGEX_ISSUE_ID contains the REGEX that you want to set for your commit message format)

    #!/bin/bash

REGEX_ISSUE_ID="^(ISSUE-[0-9]+|Merge|hotfix)"
ISSUE_ID_IN_COMMIT=$(echo $(cat "$1") | grep -o -E "$REGEX_ISSUE_ID")

if [[ -z "$ISSUE_ID_IN_COMMIT" ]]; then
    BRANCH_NAME=$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD)
    ISSUE_ID=$(echo "$BRANCH_NAME" | grep -o -E "$REGEX_ISSUE_ID")

    if [[ -z "$ISSUE_ID" ]]; then
        echo "[commit-msg-hook] Your commit message is illegal. Please rename        your branch with using following regex: $REGEX_ISSUE_ID"
        exit 1
    fi

    echo "$ISSUE_ID | $(cat "$1")" > "$1"
fi

  4. Go to the project folder and run the following command to use your hooks. You need to make this for every project that you want to use hooks.

    cd <your-team-repository>
git config core.hooksPath ~/hooks

You can find more information here: https://ahmetcan.org/git-hooks-enforce-commit-message-and-branch-name/

Rahul Vala0
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