Default Rules

If you don’t specify any configuration file and you don’t have any commitlint configuration files in your environment, the CLI will use the default configurations of each rules describes in this page.

Tip

You can also check the default values on the page of each rule.

rules:
  description-empty: # Description shouldn't be empty
    level: warning
  subject-empty: # Subject line should exist
    level: error
  type-empty: # Type must not be empty
    level: error