Function validateMessage

validateCommitMsg.js:39–78

(message)

var validateMessage = function(message) {
  var isValid = true;

  if(IGNORED.test(message)) {
    console.log('Commit message validation ignored.');
    return true;
  }

  if(message.length > MAX_LENGTH) {
    error('is longer than %d characters !', MAX_LENGTH);
    isValid = false;
  }

  var match = PATTERN.exec(message);

  if(!match) {
    error('does not match "<type>(<scope>): <subject>" ! was: ' + message);
    return false;
  }

  var type = match[1];
  var scope = match[3];
  var subject = match[4];

  if(!TYPES.hasOwnProperty(type)) {
    error('"%s" is not allowed type !', type);
    return false;
  }

  // Some more ideas, do want anything like this ?
  // - allow only specific scopes (eg. fix(docs) should not be allowed ?
  // - auto correct the type to lower case ?
  // - auto correct first letter of the subject to lower case ?
  // - auto add empty line after subject ?
  // - auto remove empty () ?
  // - auto correct typos in type ?
  // - store incorrect messages, so that we can learn

  return isValid;
};


var firstLineFromBuffer = function(buffer) {