name: "git-commit" description: "Writes commit messages and PR titles in this repo's conventional-commit format, with a user-facing subject that doubles as the changelog entry. Invoke when the user asks to write a commit message, create a commit, title a PR, squash/reword commits, fold follow-up changes into an existing commit, or format a git commit." metadata: version: "1.0.2"

Git Commit

A commit here has two readers:

• Plugin users read the subject. PRs are squash-merged, so the PR title

becomes the subject on master; script/release.sh copies subjects (never bodies) into CHANGELOG.md, and .github/workflows/release.yml copies the feat/fix/refactor/perf/docs subjects into the GitHub release notes.

• Developers read the body: problem, root cause, solution, impact.

So the subject says what the user gets; the body says how.

Workflow

1. Read the change.

``bash git diff --cached --stat && git diff --cached # staged changes git log --oneline -15 # house style ` If nothing is staged, ask which files belong to the commit rather than running git add -A` (the tree often holds unrelated local edits).

1. Pick the type and scope (tables below).
2. Write the subject (subject rules below).
3. Write the body. Required for fix, feat, refactor and perf. A

one-line docs/chore/test commit may skip it.

1. Add the issue footer if an issue exists.
2. Commit with a HEREDOC so the formatting survives:

```bash git commit -m "$(cat <<'EOF' fix(export): keep record field comments in exported docs

<body>

Fixes #1473 EOF )" ```

Types

.github/workflows/auto-label.yml checks the first line of every commit in a PR against ^(type)(\(scope\))?!?: .+ (or release vX.Y.Z) and comments on the PR if any commit fails. Only these types pass:

• There is no `ci` type — CI changes are chore(ci): ….
• type!: marks a breaking change.
• Because every PR commit is checked, fixup!, squash! and Merge branch …

commits fail the check. Squash them (git rebase -i --autosquash) before pushing a PR branch.

Scopes are the area a user would recognize, usually a top-level package or feature: export, yapi, postman, markdown, channel, settings, dashboard, search, editor, scan, rules, ai, psi, compat, ci, scripts. Check git log --oneline for the scope already used for that area.

Subject rules

• Format: <type>(<scope>): <subject>; scope is optional.
• Lowercase, imperative, no trailing period: `fix(yapi): surface the

server's rejection reason. Not Fixed …, not Fixes …`.

• Length: aim for ≤ 50 characters; never over 72. GitHub appends

(#1234) on squash-merge, so leave room for it.

• User-facing, always. Describe what the user observes or can now do, not

the mechanism. Internal words (registry, lifecycle, extension point, generation-scoped, read action, refactor of X into Y) go in the body.

• `fix`: name the symptom that is now gone, in the user's terms.
• `feat`: name the capability.
• The changelog bullet keeps the type(scope): prefix, so the whole string

must read as a release-note line.

No emojis, no passive voice, no vague subjects.

Body rules

• One blank line after the subject; wrap at 72 columns.
• `fix` — answer four questions, in this order, as short paragraphs:

1. Problem — what the user saw, and on which entry point (export,

call, scan, a specific action).

1. Root cause — the exact condition in the code, naming the class or

method (` scanSelection drops … `).

1. Solution — what changed and why that fixes the root cause, including

any threading or logging consequence.

1. Impact — what else this path touches and what is deliberately left

unchanged.

• `feat` / `enhance` — what the user can now do and how to reach it, then

the notable implementation choices and their limits.

• `refactor` / `perf` — why, and evidence that behavior is unchanged (tests

run, measurements).

• When one squashed PR contains several logical changes, keep one paragraph

group per change, each led by its own * type(scope): … line — this is what GitHub's squash message produces and what the history already looks like.

Issue footer

At the very bottom, after a blank line:

• Fixes #123 — the commit fully resolves the issue (GitHub closes it on merge).
• Refs #123 — related or partial.

In a PR description, put the issue reference before any other #number: .github/workflows/pr-close-issue.yml acts on the first one it finds.

Example

fix(export): support exporting a contract method
 
Exporting a method from the context menu failed with "No API
endpoints found." whenever the mapping annotations sit on an
interface and the framework annotation sits on its implementation.
 
Root cause: `scanSelection` resolves the selection to its containing
class and hands it to `scanClasses`, which drops any class whose
framework recognizer matches nothing. A plain interface carries no
`@RestController`, so it was rejected before a method was examined.
 
Solution: when an explicit selection yields no endpoints, expand the
selected interfaces and abstract classes through
`ClassInheritorsSearch` and scan the implementations. PSI reads added
on this path are wrapped in a read action, because it runs on
`EasyAPI-background` with no read access held.
 
Impact: the explicit-selection path only. A full scan and the
dashboard index are untouched.
 
Fixes #1475

One commit per branch

A branch / PR holds exactly one commit. Every later change to the same work — a review fix, a missed file, a test tweak, a reworded message — is folded into that commit, never added as a new one:

# fold staged changes into the branch's only commit
git commit --amend --no-edit
 
# or, when the commit to fix is not the tip
git commit --fixup=<sha>
git rebase -i --autosquash origin/master   # non-interactive: GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR=: git rebase -i --autosquash origin/master

• Keep the original message unless the fix changes what the commit does; then

update the body (and the subject, if the user-visible effect changed).

• Before folding into a pushed commit, check the PR is still open — a merged

PR needs a new branch and PR instead.

• After rewriting a pushed branch, update it with

git push --force-with-lease — only on your own PR branch, never on master, stable/* or a branch someone else pushes to.

• To bring the branch up to date, rebase on origin/master rather than

merging it in (a merge commit is a second commit and fails auto-label).

Allowed exceptions — several commits only when each one is deliberately self-contained and meant to be read on its own, and the user agreed or asked:

• a large mechanical change (rename, move, reformat) kept apart from the

behavior change it enables, so the behavior diff stays reviewable;

• a planned series of independently meaningful steps in one PR;
• release vX.Y.Z commits made by the release flow;
• a revert, which stays its own commit.

Each commit in such a series still follows every rule above, and the PR is still squash-merged unless the user says otherwise.

Rewording and PR titles

• Reword the last commit: git commit --amend (only if it is not pushed, or

it is your own PR branch — then git push --force-with-lease).

• A PR title follows exactly the same subject rules; it is what lands on

master. When a PR's purpose changes during review, update the title too.