Git Commit Template Generator

Conventional Commits standardises the first line of a commit into a format a machine can read: type, optional scope, colon and summary. That is not bureaucracy — it is what allows generating a changelog automatically, deciding whether the next version is major, minor or patch, and filtering history by kind of change.

Fill in the fields and the page assembles the complete message, with body and footer when present. The breaking-change marker deserves attention: the exclamation mark after the scope signals that the major version must rise, and the footer describing the break is what tools read to build the warnings section of the changelog.

Saved as a file and pointed at from the config, the template shows up prefilled every time you commit without a message on the command line — which makes the standard get followed out of inertia rather than discipline. The convention asks for a short imperative summary, up to around fifty characters, because that is what appears in one-line listings and in review interfaces.