Commitizen Guide

Installation

pipx install commitizen

Auto-Check Commits via Git Hooks

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Tomáš Havlas <tomas@havlas.me>
#
# Enforce the Conventional Commits format with Commitizen.

set -euo pipefail

if ! command -v cz >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  echo "no cz, try running 'pipx install commitizen'"
  exit 127
fi

git cz check --allow-abort --commit-msg-file "$1"