This action uses cocogitto to check your repository is conventional commit and perform auto-release.

1. Before running this action you need to call checkout action with fetch-depth: 0. This is mandatory, otherwise not all commit will be fetched and cocogitto will fail to execute (see actions/checkout for more info).

2. Cocogitto assumes you are running on a x86 linux runner.

on: [push]

jobs:
  cog_check_job:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: check conventional commit compliance
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Conventional commit check
        uses: cocogitto/cocogitto-action@v3

If you are running your workflow on: [pull_request], additional setup for actions/checkout is needed to checkout the right commit:

on: [pull_request]

jobs:
  cog_check_job:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: check conventional commit compliance
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          # pick the pr HEAD instead of the merge commit
          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}

      - name: Conventional commit check
        uses: cocogitto/cocogitto-action@v3

If you are familiar with cocogitto this will run cog check and nothing else.

In some case you might want to perform check only since the latest tagged version. If your repository has not always been conventional commits compliant, then you probably want to use this option.

      - name: Conventional commit check
        uses: cocogitto/cocogitto-action@v3
        with:
          check-latest-tag-only: true

Let us assume the following git history :

* 9b609bc - (HEAD -> main) WIP: feat unfinished work
* d832ca4 - feat: working on feature A
* d5ce110 - (tag: 0.1.0) chore: release 0.1.0
* 8f25a4b - chore: a commit before tag 0.1.0

Using check-latest-tag-only: true here would make cocogitto check for the two commits made since tag 0.1.0, the action would fail on HEAD which contains the non-conventional commit type 'WIP'.

You can also use this action to perform releases (calling cog bump --auto under the hood) (see: cocogitto's auto bump).

      - name: Semver release
        uses: cocogitto/cocogitto-action@v3
        id: release
        with:
          release: true
          git-user: 'Cog Bot'
          git-user-email: '[email protected]'

      # The version number is accessible as a github action output
      - name: Print version
        run: "echo '${{ steps.release.outputs.version }}'"

Note that you probably want to set the git-user and git-user-email options to override the default the git signature for the release commit. If you are not familiar with how cocogitto perform release, you might want to read the auto bump and hook sections on cocogitto's documentation.

Once the step is finished cocogitto's binary will be available in your path.

Here are all the inputs available through with: