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The commitizen command line utility. #BlackLivesMatter
http://commitizen.github.io/cz-cli/
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Silly question about commitizen and use for C/C++ repos #790

Closed krish2487 closed 4 years ago

krish2487 commented 4 years ago

Hello,

Please excuse my rather stupid and silly question, for I am trying to learn. I m a firmware ( C /C++ ) engineer working with microcontrollers. I m trying to adpot good, standardized practices for maintaining projects - personal and professional.

I was wondering, if I can use standard git flow + commitizen as a SOP for commiting my changes to the repo. Are there any drawbacks to doing so?

The getting started guide deals with changes and customizing the package.json and such which

  1. I dont understand much (if at all)
  2. Are not really something that might exist on a C /C++ repo with a make build system.

I was hoping a good samaritan might indulge a noobs request and handhold me to use this tool. Nothing exotic or esoteric, a standard conventional commit style (which I understand is the default) will be a good starting point.

At this point, I installed the tool using pip and npm, but am lost beyond that.

Thanks in advance and I apologize if this seems like a rather irrelevant question in this place.

LinusU commented 4 years ago

Hello, sorry for not getting back to you earlier!

You can absolutely use this tool in a c/c++ project. You could install commitizen globally, and have a package.json file with your config in the repository ☺️

krish2487 commented 4 years ago

@LinusU Thanks. :-) No worries about not getting back. I figured it was okay. I posted the same question here https://github.com/commitizen-tools/commitizen and was told it was okay. I have no idea if both this repo and the link above are from the same maintainers, but both seems to serve the same purpose.

I was thrown off by the package.json file and have little clue as to how to use it. Hence the question. I forgot to close the issue. My bad.

Thanks anyway

ShaneKosieradzki commented 3 years ago

@LinusU I'm not familiar with package.json but it seems to be a JavaScript construct. Is it possible to use commitizen without using a JavaScript config file? That is, is there some Commitizen specific config file that can be used in the place of package.json?