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# Overview
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The table below shows an overview of all gitlint's built-in rules, with more specific details further down the page.
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Gitlint also has [community **contrib**uted rules](contrib_rules.md) which are not listed here as they're disabled by default.
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In addition, you can also [write your own user-defined rule](user_defined_rules.md) in case you don't find
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what you're looking for.
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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T1 | title-max-length | >= 0.1.0 | Title length must be < 72 chars.
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T2 | title-trailing-whitespace | >= 0.1.0 | Title cannot have trailing whitespace (space or tab)
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T3 | title-trailing-punctuation | >= 0.1.0 | Title cannot have trailing punctuation (?:!.,;)
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T4 | title-hard-tab | >= 0.1.0 | Title cannot contain hard tab characters (\t)
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T5 | title-must-not-contain-word | >= 0.1.0 | Title cannot contain certain words (default: "WIP")
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T6 | title-leading-whitespace | >= 0.4.0 | Title cannot have leading whitespace (space or tab)
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T7 | title-match-regex | >= 0.5.0 | Title must match a given regex (default: None)
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T8 | title-min-length | >= 0.14.0 | Title length must be > 5 chars.
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B1 | body-max-line-length | >= 0.1.0 | Lines in the body must be < 80 chars
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B2 | body-trailing-whitespace | >= 0.1.0 | Body cannot have trailing whitespace (space or tab)
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B3 | body-hard-tab | >= 0.1.0 | Body cannot contain hard tab characters (\t)
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B4 | body-first-line-empty | >= 0.1.0 | First line of the body (second line of commit message) must be empty
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B5 | body-min-length | >= 0.4.0 | Body length must be at least 20 characters
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B6 | body-is-missing | >= 0.4.0 | Body message must be specified
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B7 | body-changed-file-mention | >= 0.4.0 | Body must contain references to certain files if those files are changed in the last commit
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B8 | body-match-regex | >= 0.14.0 | Title must match a given regex (default: None)
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M1 | author-valid-email | >= 0.9.0 | Author email address must be a valid email address
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I1 | ignore-by-title | >= 0.10.0 | Ignore a commit based on matching its title
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I2 | ignore-by-body | >= 0.10.0 | Ignore a commit based on matching its body
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I3 | ignore-body-lines | >= 0.14.0 | Ignore certain lines in a commit body that match a regex
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I4 | ignore-by-author-name | >= 0.16.0 | Ignore a commit based on matching its author name
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## T1: title-max-length
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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T1 | title-max-length | >= 0.1 | Title length must be < 72 chars.
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### Options
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Name | gitlint version | Default | Description
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line-length | >= 0.2 | 72 | Maximum allowed title length
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### Examples
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#### .gitlint
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```ini
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# Titles should be max 72 chars
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[title-max-length]
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line-length=72
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# It's the 21st century, titles can be 120 chars long
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[title-max-length]
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line-length=120
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```
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## T2: title-trailing-whitespace
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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T2 | title-trailing-whitespace | >= 0.1 | Title cannot have trailing whitespace (space or tab)
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## T3: title-trailing-punctuation
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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T3 | title-trailing-punctuation | >= 0.1 | Title cannot have trailing punctuation (?:!.,;)
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## T4: title-hard-tab
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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T4 | title-hard-tab | >= 0.1 | Title cannot contain hard tab characters (\t)
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## T5: title-must-not-contain-word
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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T5 | title-must-not-contain-word | >= 0.1 | Title cannot contain certain words (default: "WIP")
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### Options
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Name | gitlint version | Default | Description
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words | >= 0.3 | WIP | Comma-separated list of words that should not be used in the title. Matching is case insensitive
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### Examples
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#### .gitlint
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```ini
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# Ensure the title doesn't contain swear words
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[title-must-not-contain-word]
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words=crap,darn,damn
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```
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## T6: title-leading-whitespace
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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T6 | title-leading-whitespace | >= 0.4 | Title cannot have leading whitespace (space or tab)
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## T7: title-match-regex
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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T7 | title-match-regex | >= 0.5 | Title must match a given regex (default: .*)
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### Options
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Name | gitlint version | Default | Description
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regex | >= 0.5 | .* | [Python regex](https://docs.python.org/library/re.html) that the title should match.
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### Examples
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#### .gitlint
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```ini
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# Ensure every title starts with a user-story like US123
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[title-match-regex]
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regex=^US[1-9][0-9]*
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```
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## T8: title-min-length ##
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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T1 | title-min-length | >= | Title length must be > 5 chars.
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### Options
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Name | gitlint version | Default | Description
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min-length | >= 0.14.0 | 5 | Minimum required title length
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### Examples
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#### .gitlint
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```ini
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# Titles should be min 3 chars
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[title-min-length]
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min-length=3
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```
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## B1: body-max-line-length
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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B1 | body-max-line-length | >= 0.1 | Lines in the body must be < 80 chars
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### Options
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Name | gitlint version | Default | Description
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line-length | >= 0.2 | 80 | Maximum allowed line length in the commit message body
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### Examples
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#### .gitlint
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```ini
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# It's the 21st century, lines can be 120 chars long
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[body-max-line-length]
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line-length=120
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# Your tool prefers 72
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[body-max-line-length]
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line-length=72
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```
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## B2: body-trailing-whitespace
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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B2 | body-trailing-whitespace | >= 0.1 | Body cannot have trailing whitespace (space or tab)
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## B3: body-hard-tab
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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B3 | body-hard-tab | >= 0.1 | Body cannot contain hard tab characters (\t)
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## B4: body-first-line-empty
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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B4 | body-first-line-empty | >= 0.1 | First line of the body (second line of commit message) must be empty
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## B5: body-min-length
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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B5 | body-min-length | >= 0.4 | Body length must be at least 20 characters. In versions >= 0.8.0, gitlint will not count newline characters.
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### Options ###
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Name | gitlint version | Default | Description
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min-length | >= 0.4 | 20 | Minimum number of required characters in body
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### Examples
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#### .gitlint
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```ini
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# You want *something* in every commit body, but doesn't have to be as long as 20 chars.
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[body-min-length]
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min-length=5
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# You want a more elaborate message in every commit body
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[body-min-length]
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min-length=100
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```
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## B6: body-is-missing
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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B6 | body-is-missing | >= 0.4 | Body message must be specified
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### Options
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Name | gitlint version | Default | Description
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ignore-merge-commits | >= 0.4 | true | Whether this rule should be ignored during merge commits. Allowed values: true,false.
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## B7: body-changed-file-mention
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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B7 | body-changed-file-mention | >= 0.4 | Body must contain references to certain files if those files are changed in the last commit
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### Options
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files | >= 0.4 | (empty) | Comma-separated list of files that need to an explicit mention in the commit message in case they are changed.
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### Examples
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#### .gitlint
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```ini
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# Prevent that certain sensitive files are committed by mistake by forcing
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# users to mention them explicitly if they're deliberately changing them
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[body-changed-file-mention]
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files=generated.xml,secrets.txt,private-key.pem
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```
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## B8: body-match-regex
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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B8 | body-match-regex | >= 0.14 | Body must match a given regex
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### Options
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Name | gitlint version | Default | Description
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regex | >= 0.14 | None | [Python regex](https://docs.python.org/library/re.html) that the title should match.
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### Examples
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#### .gitlint
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```ini
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# Ensure the body ends with Reviewed-By: <some value>
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[body-match-regex]
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regex=Reviewed-By:(.*)$
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# Ensure body contains the word "Foo" somewhere
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[body-match-regex]
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regex=(*.)Foo(.*)
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```
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## M1: author-valid-email
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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M1 | author-valid-email | >= 0.8.3 | Author email address must be a valid email address
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!!! note
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Email addresses are [notoriously hard to validate and the official email valid spec is often too loose for any real world application](http://stackoverflow.com/a/201378/381010).
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Gitlint by default takes a pragmatic approach and requires users to enter email addresses that contain a name, domain and tld and has no spaces.
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### Options
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regex | >= 0.9.0 | `[^@ ]+@[^@ ]+\.[^@ ]+` | [Python regex](https://docs.python.org/library/re.html) the commit author email address is matched against
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### Examples
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#### .gitlint
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```ini
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# Only allow email addresses from a foo.com domain
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[author-valid-email]
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regex=[^@]+@foo.com
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```
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## I1: ignore-by-title
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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I1 | ignore-by-title | >= 0.10.0 | Ignore a commit based on matching its title.
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### Options
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regex | >= 0.10.0 | None | [Python regex](https://docs.python.org/library/re.html) to match against commit title. On match, the commit will be ignored.
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ignore | >= 0.10.0 | all | Comma-separated list of rule names or ids to ignore when this rule is matched.
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### Examples
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#### .gitlint
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```ini
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# Match commit titles starting with Release
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# For those commits, ignore title-max-length and body-min-length rules
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[ignore-by-title]
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regex=^Release(.*)
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ignore=title-max-length,body-min-length
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# ignore all rules by setting ignore to 'all'
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# ignore=all
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```
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## I2: ignore-by-body
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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I2 | ignore-by-body | >= 0.10.0 | Ignore a commit based on matching its body.
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### Options
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regex | >= 0.10.0 | None | [Python regex](https://docs.python.org/library/re.html) to match against each line of the body. On match, the commit will be ignored.
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ignore | >= 0.10.0 | all | Comma-separated list of rule names or ids to ignore when this rule is matched.
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### Examples
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#### .gitlint
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```ini
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# Ignore all commits with a commit message body with a line that contains 'release'
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[ignore-by-body]
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regex=(.*)release(.*)
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ignore=all
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# For matching commits, only ignore rules T1, body-min-length, B6.
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# You can use both names as well as ids to refer to other rules.
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[ignore-by-body]
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regex=(.*)release(.*)
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ignore=T1,body-min-length,B6
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```
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## I3: ignore-body-lines
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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I3 | ignore-body-lines | >= 0.14.0 | Ignore certain lines in a commit body that match a regex.
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### Options
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regex | >= 0.14.0 | None | [Python regex](https://docs.python.org/library/re.html) to match against each line of the body. On match, that line will be ignored by gitlint (the rest of the body will still be linted).
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### Examples
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#### .gitlint
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```ini
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# Ignore all lines that start with 'Co-Authored-By'
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[ignore-body-lines]
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regex=^Co-Authored-By
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# Ignore lines that start with 'Co-Authored-By' or with 'Signed-off-by'
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[ignore-body-lines]
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regex=(^Co-Authored-By)|(^Signed-off-by)
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# Ignore lines that contain 'foobar'
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[ignore-body-lines]
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regex=(.*)foobar(.*)
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```
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## I4: ignore-by-author-name
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ID | Name | gitlint version | Description
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I4 | ignore-by-author-name | >= 0.16.0 | Ignore a commit based on matching its author name.
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### Options
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regex | >= 0.16.0 | None | [Python regex](https://docs.python.org/library/re.html) to match against the commit author name. On match, the commit will be ignored.
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ignore | >= 0.16.0 | all | Comma-separated list of rule names or ids to ignore when this rule is matched.
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### Examples
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#### .gitlint
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```ini
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# Ignore all commits authored by dependabot
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[ignore-by-author-name]
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regex=dependabot
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# For commits made by anyone with "[bot]" in their name, ignore
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# rules T1, body-min-length and B6
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[ignore-by-author-name]
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regex=(.*)\[bot\](.*)
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ignore=T1,body-min-length,B6
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``` |