Go-Mitizen

A Commitizen-like Git commit utility written in Go. Used for standardizing commit messages.

Compared to cz-cli

• 👍 Starts significantly faster
• 👍 Doesn't require NPM
• 👍 Supports multiline bodies
• 👍 Configurable without NPM or JavaScript
• 👎 Not as configurable
• 👎 Isn't compatible with the full commitizen toolset

Installation

From Binary

Download and extract the appropriate binary for your platform from the releases page. Then run:

./go-mitizen --install

From Source

Download repository via Git or as a Zip. Then run:

go build
./go-mitizen --install

Usage

git cz [--install] [--version] [--log] [--dry]

Flags

--install: Install the application to be runnable via git cz.

--version: Print the application's version

--log: Write log messages to the logs.txt file in the working directory for debugging.

--dry: Print the commit message without performing a commit (useful for debugging)

Configuration

A configuration file will be looked for at config.gz.json in the root of the current repository. If this is not found then a global config will be looked for at ~/config.gz.json. If both files exist, only the first one found will be used.

The format of the config is simply:

{
    "<property>": "<new value>",
    ...
}

Any property not specified will resort to its default.

Properties

ForceSubjectLowerCase

• Type: boolean
• Default: true
• Description: Convert all characters in the subject to lowercase.

ForceScopeLowerCase

• Type: boolean
• Default: true
• Description: Convert all characters in the scope to lowercase.

AllowBlankLinesInBody

• Type: boolean
• Default: true
• Description: Whether to remove any blank lines in the body of the commit (might be necessary for compatibility with other commitizen tools).

MaxHeaderLength

• Type: int
• Default: 100
• Description: The number of characters allowed in the header of the commit. The utility will not allow the user to submit a header greater than this length.

MaxLineLength

• Type: int
• Default: 100
• Description: The number of characters to allow in each line of the body and footer (length of header is set with MaxHeaderLength). Lines exceeding this length will be wrapped.

Types

• Type: Array of {"name" : <string>, "description": <string>} objects
• Default: See the code
• Description: The types of commits that can be made.