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In a company, we have a project that we are working on for some time already. In this project we use git for versioning. We are trying to make our git workflow more professional and more easy to collaborate. One of the steps we want to take is automatically generate a changelog, e.g. with generate-changelog. This package requires that the commits our formatted following the Angular commit message format.

I will be happy to write all the commits in the future following this format, but we still have a lot (a couple of hundreds) of commits that do not follow this format. In the meanwhile, I want to have the changelog generated automatically.

Is there a way to generate the changelog automatically, although old commit messages do not follow the required format? Or could we possibly 'update' the commit message such that we do follow the required format?

In case you need more info, let me know and I will update the question accordingly.

Update: I want to prepend all old commit messages with some text like: docs:. Interactive rebase as suggested here and in the answer below does work, but only if you have a few commit messages. I am looking for a way to change all commit messages at once. An exmaple that I did not get to work yet can be found in this SO question/answer.

I'm using Azure pipelines to set a version number using GitVersion. Here is the pipeline:

git commit --amend

Always removes me first line from commit-message. My editor is VIM.

Do you have guys any idea what could be the reason for that?

My git workflow goes like this:

Every once in a while I want to include lines that start with # in git commit messages.

The question is "Is there a way to escape the # character so that it is not interpreted as a comment mark?"

Please answer with "Yes, it is.." or "No".

This is not a duplicate of Start a git commit message with a hashmark (#). I simply want a confirmation of whether it is possible to escape or not.

Based on the conventional commits how are mere UI changes supposed to be classified? For example suppose a logout button is moved from the bottom of the screen to the top, an icon is added next to the text, and there is a new animation. Other then that nothing changes from a functional perspective.

My confusion comes from this (probably wrong) reasoning. You can't use any of the following because:

• feat: it's not a new feature
• fix: there isn't any bug to fix
• perf: performance is not touched upon
• refactor: this could be the case following the Angular definition of refactor "A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature", but not using the Wikipedia definition of refactor "code refactoring is the process of restructuring existing computer code—changing the factoring—without changing its external behavior"
• style: changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc). It's self evident that this isn't the case

I was attempting to commit some project changes in git bash. When I entered
git commit -m"my message"
I get the error
Aborting commit due to empty commit message.

I tried the solution from this post but I still get the same error.

What confuses me is that I wasn't having this problem before. The git commit -m"message" was working fine on device #1. The next day, I worked on device #2 and the commit command was working. On the same day, I also work on device #3, no problems with the commit command. When I come back to device #1, I am no longer able to commit any changes due to the abort message.

Hope this explains it more. Thank you in advance.

Before I start just wants to tell you all that i'm a beginner in python :)

I'm running a python script via git bash while committing code changes(using git hook[commit-message]) and I wants to read some user input from git bash terminal and the same has to be sent to my python script where i'll validate that, I tried many options that are available in python modules like getpass, subprocess, msvcrt and others but nothing worked for me. So could someone guide me or show me the code how to achieve this?

Below is the one of the sample code I have used,

How can I make Intellij IDEA support proper recognition of file contents, where I have a YAML file with Python and Bash blocks inside? The goal is that the IDE would understand where Python/Bash code should be and under which conditions.

Do I need to write a plugin, or can I use some existing one, define some YAML/JSON schema?

Thank you!

Example code: