chore: switch to commitlint.js for checking the commit msgs in CI

This allows us to have some control over what is an allowed commit
message. This is important since some, like those from renovate,
will be over the other tools 72 character limit.

Author: tsloughter

.github/workflows/commitlint.yml

@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
-name: Conventional Commitlint
+name: Commit Linter
 
 on:
   push:
     branches: ["main"]
   pull_request:
 
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  pull-requests: read
 jobs:
   commitlint:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -13,5 +16,23 @@ jobs:
       contents: read
       pull-requests: read
     steps:
-      - name: Conventional Commitlint
-        uses: opensource-nepal/commitlint@v1
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Setup node
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version: lts/*
+          cache: npm
+      - name: Install commitlint
+        run: npm install -D @commitlint/cli @commitlint/config-conventional
+      - name: Print versions
+        run: |
+          git --version
+          node --version
+          npm --version
+          npx commitlint --version
+
+      - name: Validate PR commits with commitlint
+        if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
+        run: npx commitlint --from ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }} --to ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }} --verbose

.gitignore

@@ -20,3 +20,7 @@ rebar3.crashdump
 doc
 !_index.md
 guides
+# don't commit the stuff required for commitlint to work
+node_modules
+package-lock.json
+package.json

commitlint.config.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+import {
+	RuleConfigCondition,
+	RuleConfigSeverity,
+	TargetCaseType,
+} from "@commitlint/types";
+
+export default {
+	parserPreset: "conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits",
+	rules: {
+		"body-leading-blank": [RuleConfigSeverity.Warning, "always"] as const,
+		"body-max-line-length": [RuleConfigSeverity.Error, "always", 100] as const,
+		"footer-leading-blank": [RuleConfigSeverity.Warning, "always"] as const,
+		"footer-max-line-length": [
+			RuleConfigSeverity.Error,
+			"always",
+			100,
+		] as const,
+		"header-max-length": [RuleConfigSeverity.Error, "always", 100] as const,
+		"header-trim": [RuleConfigSeverity.Error, "always"] as const,
+		"subject-case": [
+			RuleConfigSeverity.Error,
+			"never",
+			["sentence-case", "start-case", "pascal-case", "upper-case"],
+		] as [RuleConfigSeverity, RuleConfigCondition, TargetCaseType[]],
+		"subject-empty": [RuleConfigSeverity.Error, "never"] as const,
+		"subject-full-stop": [RuleConfigSeverity.Error, "never", "."] as const,
+		"type-case": [RuleConfigSeverity.Error, "always", "lower-case"] as const,
+		"type-empty": [RuleConfigSeverity.Error, "never"] as const,
+		"type-enum": [
+			RuleConfigSeverity.Error,
+			"always",
+			[
+				"chore",
+				"feat",
+				"fix",
+			],
+		] as [RuleConfigSeverity, RuleConfigCondition, string[]],
+	},
+};

justfile

@@ -8,3 +8,8 @@ changelogs:
         git cliff 29b747722addf39ce40014ee1a905a973c9044be.. --include-path "${dir}/**" --workdir ${dir} -o ${dir}/CHANGELOG.md
       fi
     done
+
+# lint the commits between HEAD and the point from `origin/main` this branch was created from
+commit-lint:
+    npm install -D @commitlint/cli @commitlint/config-conventional
+    npx commitlint --verbose --from `git merge-base --fork-point origin/main` --to HEAD