Source code for checkCommitMessage

#!/usr/bin/env python3

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"""Validate commit message prefix for the ``commit-msg`` pre-commit hook.

The first non-empty, non-comment line in the commit message must start with
``[#<number>]``.
"""

from pathlib import Path
import re
import sys


COMMIT_PREFIX_PATTERN = re.compile(r"^\[#\d+\](?:\s|$)")


[docs] def get_commit_subject(commit_message_path: Path) -> str: """Return the first non-empty, non-comment line of a commit message.""" with commit_message_path.open("r", encoding="utf-8") as commit_file: for raw_line in commit_file: line = raw_line.strip() if not line or line.startswith("#"): continue return line return ""
[docs] def main() -> int: """Run the commit-message prefix validation.""" if len(sys.argv) != 2: print("Error: expected a single commit message file argument.") return 2 commit_message_path = Path(sys.argv[1]) subject = get_commit_subject(commit_message_path) if not subject: print("Error: commit message is empty.") return 1 if COMMIT_PREFIX_PATTERN.match(subject): return 0 print("Error: commit message must start with [#xxxx].") print("Example: [#1234] Brief summary of the change") print(f"Found: {subject}") return 1
if __name__ == "__main__": raise SystemExit(main())