Check commit history

Running cog check will check your commit history against the conventional commit specification:

❯ cog check
No errored commits

Let us create an invalid commit:

git commit -m "Your Mother Was A Hamster, And Your Father Smelt Of Elderberries"

And check our commit history again:

❯ cog check
Error:
Found 1 non compliant commits in db5151..HEAD:

________________________________________________________

Errored commit: db5151486a41f1b694fd8f90144dd02c87268988 <Paul Delafosse>
	Commit message: 'Your Mother Was A Hamster, And Your Father Smelt Of Elderberries'
	Error: Missing commit type separator `:`

	Caused by:
	     --> 1:5
	      |
	    1 | Your Mother Was A Hamster, And Your Father Smelt Of Elderberries
	      |     ^---
	      |
	      = expected scope or type_separator

TIP

You can check your history, starting from the latest tag using --from-latest-tag or -l flag. This is useful when your git repo started to use conventional commits from a certain point in history and you don't care about editing old commits.