Show HN: GitCop – Automated Commit Message Validation for GitHub Pull Requests

Can the bot comment include an example of a good commit message?<p>Telling users that &quot;Commits must be in the following format: %{type}(%{scope}): %{description}&quot; requires them to mentally parse and figure out what this means. Giving an example along the lines of &quot;perf(backend): optimized db access&quot; would make this easier.

It&#x27;s a very nice idea, but the validation rules are extremely limited.<p>Perhaps I&#x27;m wrong, but all of the rule options on the site look like they could have been implemented via regular expressions. Given the technical expertise of your intended customers, why not allow them to set a list of rules in the format: [regex, error-message], e.g.<p><pre><code> &quot;^.{0,50}\n&quot; &quot;The subject should be 50 characters or under&quot; &quot;^.+\n(.{0,72}\n)*$&quot; &quot;The body should have lines of 72 characters or under&quot; &quot;^\p{Upper}&quot; &quot;The subject should be capitalized&quot;</code></pre>

This is quite cool, and actually something I&#x27;ll propose to use at some <a href="http://github.com/theforeman" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;theforeman</a> repos.<p>I didn&#x27;t really understood the format rules, so if the author posted this, a help section would help. I try to enforce<p><pre><code> &#x27;%(type) #xxxx(: | -) %{description}&#x27; </code></pre> How would you do that? #xxxx is just an issue number, so it can be #23891, and after that I want a separator from the description, semi colon or hyphen are fine. Probably %{scope} can be used but I didn&#x27;t really understand it from the inline help, sorry!

After the PR is opened is too late to warn about commit messages. They can&#x27;t be changed without a destructive push to the remote, which is generally a no-no for a public branch, and when using github, closes the PR automatically. The correct place to do this is, I believe, in the `commit-msg` hook: <a href="http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-scm.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;en&#x2F;v2&#x2F;Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks</a>

Slightly off topic - are there any good plugins&#x2F;tools that remind you to commit frequently? I&#x27;d love something like this for sublime.

Have you thought about opening this up for more than just commit messages?<p>Many projects need to check a number of things on PRs, e.g. enforce coding style, bugfix has a corresponding test, user signed the CLA, owner of %{scope} is notified for review, etc. That would obviously need a way to tie into external&#x2F;custom tools as everybody validates these things differently.

I like the idea, but for projects that aren&#x27;t open source, why not just mandate the use of a git commit-msg hook instead?

Looks clean, has plenty of features, and I love the pricing schema (Unlimited for open source projects - Always been a fan of this trend).<p>Great work!

What an awesome service, I&#x27;m signing up my dev team for this right now! Worth the money!

I&#x27;d love it if you could make this work with Atlassian Stash behind a firewall.

I have been looking for something like this

looks like Robocop has finally joined the Pull Police. nice job!