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Configuration

Settings

name

Type: str

Default: "cz_conventional_commits"

Name of the committing rules to use

version

Type: str

Default: None

Current version. Example: "0.1.2". Required if you use version_provider = "commitizen".

version_files

Type: list

Default: [ ]

Files were the version will be updated. A pattern to match a line, can also be specified, separated by : Read more

version_provider

Type: str

Default: commitizen

Version provider used to read and write version Read more

version_scheme

Type: str

Default: pep440

Select a version scheme from the following options [pep440, semver, semver2]. Useful for non-python projects. Read more

tag_format

Type: str

Default: $version

Format for the git tag, useful for old projects, that use a convention like "v1.2.1". Read more

update_changelog_on_bump

Type: bool

Default: false

Create changelog when running cz bump

gpg_sign

Type: bool

Default: false

Use gpg signed tags instead of lightweight tags.

annotated_tag

Type: bool

Default: false

Use annotated tags instead of lightweight tags. See difference

bump_message

Type: str

Default: None

Create custom commit message, useful to skip ci. Read more

retry_after_failure

Type: bool

Default: false

Automatically retry failed commit when running cz commit. Read more

allow_abort

Type: bool

Default: false

Disallow empty commit messages, useful in ci. Read more

allowed_prefixes

Type: list Default: [ "Merge", "Revert", "Pull request", "fixup!", "squash!"] Allow some prefixes and do not try to match the regex when checking the message Read more

changelog_file

Type: str

Default: CHANGELOG.md

Filename of exported changelog

changelog_format

Type: str

Default: None

Format used to parse and generate the changelog, If not specified, guessed from changelog_file.

changelog_incremental

Type: bool

Default: false

Update changelog with the missing versions. This is good if you don't want to replace previous versions in the file. Note: when doing cz bump --changelog this is automatically set to true

changelog_start_rev

Type: str

Default: None

Start from a given git rev to generate the changelog

changelog_merge_prerelease

Type: bool

Default: false

Collect all changes of prerelease versions into the next non-prerelease version when creating the changelog.

style

Type: list

see above

Style for the prompts (It will merge this value with default style.) See More (Styling your prompts with your favorite colors)

customize

Type: dict

Default: None

This is only supported when config through toml. Custom rules for committing and bumping. Read more

use_shortcuts

Type: bool

Default: false

If enabled, commitizen will show keyboard shortcuts when selecting from a list. Define a key for each of your choices to set the key. Read more

major_version_zero

Type: bool

Default: false

When true, breaking changes on a 0.x will remain as a 0.x version. On false, a breaking change will bump a 0.x version to 1.0. major-version-zero

prerelease_offset

Type: int

Default: 0

In some circumstances, a prerelease cannot start with a 0, e.g. in an embedded project individual characters are encoded as bytes. This can be done by specifying an offset from which to start counting. prerelease-offset

pre_bump_hooks

Type: list[str]

Default: []

Calls the hook scripts before bumping version. Read more

post_bump_hooks

Type: list[str]

Default: []

Calls the hook scripts after bumping the version. Read more

encoding

Type: str

Default: utf-8

Sets the character encoding to be used when parsing commit messages. Read more

template

Type: str

Default: None (provided by plugin)

Provide custom changelog jinja template path relative to the current working directory. Read more

extras

Type: dict[str, Any]

Default: {}

Provide extra variables to the changelog template. Read more

Configuration file

pyproject.toml, .cz.toml or cz.toml

Default and recommended configuration format for a project. For a python project, we recommend adding an entry to your pyproject.toml. You can also create a .cz.toml or cz.toml file at the root of your project folder.

Example configuration:

[tool.commitizen]
name = "cz_conventional_commits"
version = "0.1.0"
version_files = [
    "src/__version__.py",
    "pyproject.toml:version"
]
update_changelog_on_bump = true
style = [
    ["qmark", "fg:#ff9d00 bold"],
    ["question", "bold"],
    ["answer", "fg:#ff9d00 bold"],
    ["pointer", "fg:#ff9d00 bold"],
    ["highlighted", "fg:#ff9d00 bold"],
    ["selected", "fg:#cc5454"],
    ["separator", "fg:#cc5454"],
    ["instruction", ""],
    ["text", ""],
    ["disabled", "fg:#858585 italic"]
]

.cz.json or cz.json

Commitizen has support for JSON configuration. Recommended for NodeJS projects.

{
  "commitizen": {
    "name": "cz_conventional_commits",
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "version_files": ["src/__version__.py", "pyproject.toml:version"],
    "style": [
      ["qmark", "fg:#ff9d00 bold"],
      ["question", "bold"],
      ["answer", "fg:#ff9d00 bold"],
      ["pointer", "fg:#ff9d00 bold"],
      ["highlighted", "fg:#ff9d00 bold"],
      ["selected", "fg:#cc5454"],
      ["separator", "fg:#cc5454"],
      ["instruction", ""],
      ["text", ""],
      ["disabled", "fg:#858585 italic"]
    ]
  }
}

.cz.yaml or cz.yaml

YAML configuration is supported by Commitizen. Recommended for Go, ansible, or even helm charts projects.

commitizen:
  name: cz_conventional_commits
  version: 0.1.0
  version_files:
    - src/__version__.py
    - pyproject.toml:version
  style:
    - - qmark
      - fg:#ff9d00 bold
    - - question
      - bold
    - - answer
      - fg:#ff9d00 bold
    - - pointer
      - fg:#ff9d00 bold
    - - highlighted
      - fg:#ff9d00 bold
    - - selected
      - fg:#cc5454
    - - separator
      - fg:#cc5454
    - - instruction
      - ""
    - - text
      - ""
    - - disabled
      - fg:#858585 italic

Version providers

Commitizen can read and write version from different sources. By default, it use the commitizen one which is using the version field from the commitizen settings. But you can use any commitizen.provider entrypoint as value for version_provider.

Commitizen provides some version providers for some well known formats:

name description
commitizen Default version provider: Fetch and set version in commitizen config.
scm Fetch the version from git and does not need to set it back
pep621 Get and set version from pyproject.toml project.version field
poetry Get and set version from pyproject.toml tool.poetry.version field
cargo Get and set version from Cargo.toml project.version field
npm Get and set version from package.json version field, package-lock.json version,packages.''.version fields if the file exists, and npm-shrinkwrap.json version,packages.''.version fields if the file exists
composer Get and set version from composer.json project.version field

Note

The scm provider is meant to be used with setuptools-scm or any packager *-scm plugin.

An example in your .cz.toml or cz.toml would look like this:

[tool.commitizen]
version_provider = "pep621"

Custom version provider

You can add you own version provider by extending VersionProvider and exposing it on the commitizen.provider entrypoint.

Here a quick example of a my-provider provider reading and writing version in a VERSION file.

my_provider.py
from pathlib import Path
from commitizen.providers import VersionProvider


class MyProvider(VersionProvider):
    file = Path() / "VERSION"

    def get_version(self) -> str:
        return self.file.read_text()

    def set_version(self, version: str):
        self.file.write_text(version)
setup.py
from setuptools import setup

setup(
    name='my-commitizen-provider',
    version='0.1.0',
    py_modules=['my_provider'],
    install_requires=['commitizen'],
    entry_points = {
        'commitizen.provider': [
            'my-provider = my_provider:MyProvider',
        ]
    }
)