New command: cz check

[woile]

Goal

Prevent users from commiting if it doesn't match the current cz rules.

Description

Let's say a team is using as cz rule conventional-commits, and they want to enforce the project to always use conventional-commits by doing this in a pre-commit hook.
Adding the command cz check would make it easy to validate this.

[danvergara]

I found this post on the web, it's about how to create your own hook and I think it's not necessary use pre-commit. The author of the post points out that we have to create a file called commit-msg inside '.git/hooks/', change the permissions of the file and each time a commit is created this file will be executed.

[woile]

Hello @dany2691 thanks for the link. The idea of pre-commit is to not manage different scripts manually. If we create a commit-msg we may step on an already created script.

But using pre-commit or not is not the point. If a user manually creates the script commit-msg, they still need to run cz check inside it. So the idea is to create a check command which could be used in a commit-msg, is up to the user whether to use pre-commit or not.

[danvergara]

For example:

commit-msg

#!/bin/bash

MSG_FILE=$1
cz check --commit-msg-file $MSG_FILE