Conventional commits

[jiridanek]

The idea is to use a standardized set of commit message prefixes so that candidates for cherry-picks to a patch or minor version can be then selected automatically.

https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/

As an example, everything that was committed after a branching point that has a fix: commit message prefix may be cherry-picked to a minor release branch.

This convention forces everyone to make some of the decisions when the commit is being made, therefore when the knowledge is fresh in the mind.

I am not sure what happens if you commit a malformed message. Maybe some enforcement git-precommit script is required to avoid the situation.