commit-validation.yml

name: commit-validation
on: [ push, pull_request ]

permissions:
  contents: read

jobs:
  check-commit-msg-length:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
    - name: Check commit message length
      run: |
        # Get last commit messages
        if [ "${{github.event_name}}" = "push" ]; then
          if [ "${{github.event.before}}" = "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000" ]; then
            # We are on a new branch
            current="$(echo '${{github.ref}}' | sed 's!^refs/heads!origin!')"
            readarray -t other < <(git show-ref | awk -F' ' '{ sub(/^refs\/remotes\//,"",$NF); }($NF != "'"$current"'"){print "^" $NF;}')
            LOG_RANGE=( "$current" "${other[@]}" )
            unset current other
          else
            # We are on existing branch
            LOG_RANGE=( "${{github.event.before}}.." )
          fi
        elif [ "${{github.event_name}}" = "pull_request" ]; then
          LOG_RANGE=( "origin/${{github.base_ref}}.." )
        fi
        if [[ -v LOG_RANGE ]]; then
          if git log --no-merges --pretty=format:"%s" "${LOG_RANGE[@]}" -- | grep -qE "^[^#].{78}"; then
            echo -e "Last commit log contains a line with more than 78 characters:\n"
            git log --no-merges --pretty=format:"%h: %s" "${LOG_RANGE[@]}" -- | grep -E "^[^:]+: [^#].{78}"
            echo
            exit 1
          else
            echo "Commit log looks good."
          fi
          unset LOG_RANGE
        else
          echo "Not checking commits on ${{github.event_name}}"
        fi