github-status-checks-commit-message-regex

A simple python scripts, that checks if the commit message in the pull request matches a defined regex pattern

Just requires a plain Github workflow to run, on ubuntu-latest (or anything that has python3)

There is a few options you can specify:

Input	Description	Required?	Default
pattern	The regex pattern to use, to check for a valid commit message	Yes	N/A
check_commit_title	Check for the pattern in the commit title (first line)	No	false
check_commit_body	Check for thee pattern in the rest of the commit message	No	false
check_commit_message	Check for the pattern in the full commit message (title+body)	No	true
check_all_commits	Check all individual commit message in the pull request	No	false
github_token	The GITHUB_TOKEN to use for authenticating to github	No	N/A

Using check_all_commits, requires you to pass the {{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}, so it has access to all the commits in the pull request

Example status check Github Action workflow simple

name: Check commit message
on: [pull_request]

jobs:
  check-commit-message:
  name: Check commit message
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  steps:
    - name: Check commit message
      uses: mnj/[email protected]
      with:
        pattern: '([A-Z][A-Z0-9]+-[0-9]+)' # Match all upper casee Jira ticket ids

Example status check Github Action workflow, full example

name: Check commit message
on: [pull_request]

jobs:
  check-commit-message:
  name: Check commit message
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  steps:
    - name: Check commit message
      uses: mnj/[email protected]
      with:
        pattern: '([A-Z][A-Z0-9]+-[0-9]+)' # Match all upper casee Jira ticket ids
        check_commit_title: 'false'
        check_commit_body: 'false'
        check_commit_message: 'true'
        check_all_commits: 'true'

        github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

License

This project is released under the terms of the MIT License