commit-message-validator is a tool that validates git commit messages to the Wikimedia commit message guidelines.

Please see <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/commit-message-validator> for more details.

commit-message-validator can be used as a plugin for the pre-commit git hooks system. Add the following to your .pre-commit-config.yaml:

-  repo: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/ci-tools/commit-message-validator
   rev: # Fill in a tag / sha here (like v2.0.0)
   hooks:
   -  id: commit-message-validator

Then install the pre-commit hook:

pre-commit install --hook-type commit-msg

A GitLab CI/CD template is provided in this repo for linting of commit messages in a merge request. Add the following to your .gitlab-ci.yml:

include:
  - project: repos/ci-tools/commit-message-validator
    file: /templates/lint-merge-request.yml

See CONTRIBUTING.rst for guidelines on contributing to commit-message-validator.

Please reports bugs and feature requests at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/commit-message-validator/.

Licensed under the GPL-2.0-or-later license. See COPYING for the full license.