If a commit message currently mentions the breaking change or
deprecation note keywords, the commit message parse logic
accidentally picks up the note. This could then accidentally
prevent the commit from being merged (e.g. if the commit targets
the patch branch but mentioned the `BREAKING CHANGE: ` marker).
This commit switches the commit message notes pattern to only
capture notes at the beginning of a line (also allowing accidental
whitespace). This matches with the format we describe in our
contribution guide, as well as with our commit message validation
logic that also assumes notes at the beginning of a line.
PR Close#42436
Currently the commit message validation tool from `ng-dev` validates
the `BREAKING CHANGE:` commit message notes. This commit adds a similar
check for `DEPRECATED:` commit message notes.
Additionally, the check for breaking changes is reworked slightly to
be more tolerant (i.e. if there is only a single line break after the
summary; this is acceptable as per the parser and commonly done in the
COMP repo). The checks have been updated to capture wrong keywords that
are commonly used instead of the correct one. e.g. if a commit message
uses `DEPRECATIONS:` instead of `DEPRECATED:`, the validation will fail.
This prevents changelog generation issues where breaking change notes,
or deprecations are missing. This happened in the COMP repo where
the `DEPRECATED:` keyword was used incorrectly. See:
99391e7939
PR Close#42436
For commits from git log entries additional fields are available such as the reference
hash and author name, update the utility functions in commit-message to include the
parsed fields. Additionally define, per commit message type, whether to include the
commit in a release notes entry.
PR Close#41458
Check a range of commits by retrieving the log files to be parsed with the expected
format for the parser.
This change is in part of a larger set of changes making the process for obtaining
and parsing commits for release note creation and message validation consistent.
This consistency will make it easier to debug as well as ease the design of tooling
which is built on top of these processes.
PR Close#41341
Use conventional-commits-parser for parsing commits for validation, this is being done
in anticipation of relying on this parser for release note creation. Unifying how commits
are parsed will provide the most consistency in our tooling.
PR Close#41286
When attempting to actually rely on `parseCommitMessagesForRange`, it became apparent
that the function really belongs in the parse file, rather than utils.
PR Close#39747
When creating a commit with the git cli, git pre-populates the editor
used to enter the commit message with some comments (i.e. lines starting
with `#`). These comments contain helpful instructions or information
regarding the changes that are part of the commit. As happens with all
commit message comments, they are removed by git and do not end up in
the final commit message.
However, the file that is passed to the `commit-msg` to be validated
still contains these comments. This may affect the outcome of the commit
message validation. In such cases, the author will not realize that the
commit message is not in the desired format until the linting checks
fail on CI (which validates the final commit messages and is not
affected by this issue), usually several minutes later.
Possible ways in which the commit message validation outcome can be
affected:
- The minimum body length check may pass incorrectly, even if there is
no actual body, because the comments are counted as part of the body.
- The maximum line length check may fail incorrectly due to a very long
line in the comments.
This commit fixes the problem by removing comment lines before
validating a commit message.
Fixes#37865
PR Close#38438
Paul Gschwendtner
Joey Perrott
George Kalpakas