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Semantic Commit Messages

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Semantic Commit Messages

See how a minor change to your commit message style can make you a better programmer.

Format: <type>(<scope>): <subject>

<scope> is optional

Example

Feat: Add Hat Wobble
^--^  ^------------^
|     |
|     +-> Summary in present tense.
|
+-------> Type: Chore, Docs, Feat, Fix, Refactor, Style, or Test.

More Examples:

Feat: (new feature for the user, not a new feature for build script)
Fix: (bug fix for the user, not a fix to a build script)
Docs: (changes to the documentation)
Style: (formatting, missing semi colons, etc; no production code change)
Refactor: (refactoring production code, eg. renaming a variable)
Test: (adding missing tests, refactoring tests; no production code change)
Chore: (updating grunt tasks etc; no production code change)

References:

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