Commitlint is a tool to help you maintain a conventional commit message style in your project.

General pattern:

type(scope): subject # scope is optional

Examples:

feat(commits): add filtering by scope
fix: fix typo in README
docs: add documentation for new features
feat!: add new breaking change feature

Common types according to the conventional commits specification:

• feat: A new feature
• fix: A bug fix
• docs: Documentation only changes
• style: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)
• refactor: A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature
• perf: A code change that improves performance
• test: Adding missing tests or correcting existing tests
• build: Changes that affect the build system or external dependencies (example scopes: gulp, broccoli, npm)
• ci: Changes to our CI configuration files and scripts (example scopes: Travis, Circle, BrowserStack, SauceLabs)
• chore: Other changes that don't modify src or test files