conventional-commits

To standardize Git commit messages for automated releases, apply the Conventional Commits specification to enforce consistent type, scope, and subject formats across your repository history and pull requests.

The Conventional Commits specification is a formatting standard for commit messages that structures types, scopes, and subjects to remove ambiguity in Git history and enable predictable automated release processes.

You generate changelogs and automatic version bumps with release-please by enforcing Conventional Commits messages, which the tool parses to determine semantic versioning increments and update changelogs automatically.

To format breaking changes in conventional commit messages, append an exclamation mark after the type or scope, and include a BREAKING CHANGE footer to ensure release tooling correctly triggers a major version bump.

Yes, you can use conventional commits to review pull requests in collaborative projects by checking that submitted commit messages adhere to the required type, scope, and subject formats before merging.

You do not need specific dependencies to enforce conventional commit formats, as the standard applies directly to your Git workflow text inputs, but tools like release-please utilize this structure to generate automated outputs.