Features

• Create conventional commits with ease
• Use alongside cocogitto for automatic versioning, changelog generation, and more
• Use emoji 👋 (or, shortcodes)
• Autocomplete for commit scope
• Run as a git hook
• Custom commit types

Installation

webi

curl -sS https://webinstall.dev/koji | bash

cargo

cargo install --locked koji

Be sure to have git installed first.

Usage

The basic way to use koji is as a replacement for git commit, enforcing the conventional commit standard by writing your commit through an interactive prompt.

# Do some work
cd dev/koji
git add README.md

# Commit your work
koji

See koji --help for more options.

Use koji completions <SHELL> to generate completion scripts for your shell.

Using as a git hook

An alternative way to use koji is as a git hook, running it any time you run git commit.

Manually

Update .git/hooks/prepare-commit-msg with the following code:

#!/bin/bash
exec < /dev/tty && koji --hook || true

husky

npx husky add .husky/prepare-commit-msg "exec < /dev/tty && koji --hook || true

prek / pre-commit

Add the prepare-commit-msg hook type and the koji hook to .pre-commit-config.yaml:

default_install_hook_types: [prepare-commit-msg, ...]
repos:
  - repo: local
    hooks:
      - id: prepare-msg
        name: prepare commit message
        entry: bash -c "exec < /dev/tty && koji --hook || true"
        language: system
        stages: [prepare-commit-msg]

Similar should work for any hook runner, just make sure you're using it with the prepare-commit-msg hook.

When using it as a hook, any message passed to git commit -m will be used for the commit summary. Writing your commit as a conventional commit, e.g. git commit -m "feat(space): delete some stars", will bypass koji altogether.

Configuration

Config values are prioritized in the following order:

• Passed in as arguments (see: koji --help)
• Read from file passed in via --config
• .koji.toml in the working directory
• Unix/Redox:
  • $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/koji/config.toml
  • ~/.config/koji/config.toml
• Windows:
  • %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\koji\config.toml
• The default config

Options

autocomplete

• Type: bool
• Optional: true
• Description: Enables auto-complete for scope prompt via scanning commit history.

autocomplete = true

breaking-changes

• Type: bool
• Optional: true
• Description: Enables breaking change prompt.

breaking_changes = true

commit-types

• Type: Vec<CommitType>
• Optional: true
• Description: A list of commit types to use instead of the default.

[[commit_types]]
name = "feat"
emoji = "✨"
description = "A new feature"

emoji

• Type: bool
• Optional: true
• Description: Prepend the commit summary with relevant emoji based on commit type.

emoji = true

issues

• Type: bool
• Optional: true
• Description: Enables issue prompt, which will append a reference to an issue in the commit body.

issues = true