conventional-commits/conventionalcommits.org resource

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The home repository of the Conventional Commits specification, a standard for structured, human- and machine-readable git commit messages. It hosts the specification text, translations, and the Hugo-based website that publishes it.

Use cases

• learn how to write conventional commit messages
• reference the conventional commits specification
• standardize commit message format across a team
• find the badge to show a repo follows conventional commits
• contribute translations of the specification
• understand how commit types like feat and fix map to semver

When to choose

• you need the authoritative definition of the Conventional Commits 1.0.0 spec
• you want to adopt a widely used commit message convention
• you want to link or badge your project as spec-compliant

When to avoid

• you need a tool that enforces or generates commit messages - use commitlint or conventional-changelog instead
• you want a changelog generator rather than the specification itself

Facets

learning-resource · maturity stable

documentation version-control developer-tools version-control developer-tools documentation cli conventional-commits specification git commit-messages semver hugo static-site web-server docker

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