We use commitlint and husky to prevent bad commit messages. For example when trying to commit with the following message git commit -m "some changes". You will receive the following error:
⧗ input: some changes
✖ subject may not be empty [subject-empty]
✖ type may not be empty [type-empty]
✖ found 2 problems, 0 warnings
A commit should always look like: type(scope): subject. The type and sbuject must have a specific value while the subject can be anything in sentence case. For example when fixing an issue with the play command the commit message could be:
fix(play): Don't allow adding new songs while loading a playlist
You can find a full list of available types and scopes in the config file.