#!/usr/bin/env bash # the file containing the commit message is passed as the first argument commit_file="$1" commit_message=$(cat "$commit_file") error() { echo -e "\033[0;31m$1:\033[0m" echo "$commit_message" exit 1 } # fail if the commit message contains windows style line breaks (carriage returns) if grep -q -U $'\x0D' "$commit_file"; then error "Commit message contains CRLF line breaks (only unix-style LF linebreaks are allowed)" fi line_number=0 while read -r line; do # ignore comment lines [[ "$line" =~ ^#.* ]] && continue ((line_number += 1)) line_length=${#line} category_pattern="^\S.*?: .+" if [[ $line_number -eq 1 ]] && (echo "$line" | grep -P -v -q "$category_pattern"); then error "Missing category in commit title (if this is a fix up of a previous commit, it should be squashed)" fi if [[ $line_number -eq 1 ]] && [[ "$line" =~ \.$ ]]; then error "Commit title ends in a period" fi if [[ $line_length -gt 72 ]]; then error "Commit message lines are too long (maximum allowed is 72 characters)" fi done <"$commit_file" exit 0