plantuml/CONVENTIONAL_COMMIT.md

Conventional Commit

IMPORTANT: This is a draft

The Conventional Commits specification is a lightweight convention on top of commit messages. It provides an easy set of rules for creating an explicit commit history.

Commit Message Format

Each commit message consists of a header, an optional URL list , an optional body and an optional footer. The header has a special format that includes a type, a scope and a subject:

<type>[optional scope]: <description>
[optional URL list]
[optional body]
[optional footer(s)]

The header is mandatory and the scope of the header is optional.

The optional URL list contains some links to github issue or to the forum and documents which issues or features is concerned by this commit.

Type

Must be one of the following:

• 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 or correcting existing test
• chore: Changes to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries such as documentation generation

Scope

Subject

The subject contains succinct description of the change:

• use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes"
• don't capitalize first letter
• no dot (.) at the end